Bot Framework Composer & Cognitive Services

Question

Hi there,

I'm currently working on a chatbot for a school project, and settled on using Bot Framework Composer for designing and developing the bot. Bot Framework Composer integrates smoothly with both QnAMaker and LUIS, but upon visiting QnAMaker's website, it says that 'Question Answering is now a Generally Available feature offered with Azure Cognitive Service for Language.' I was wondering whether QnAMaker is still being supported, and if there's any way to incorporate the Cognitive Services into Composer, instead of QnAMaker and LUIS.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It's not clear whether Bot composer supports the new language service

Do you have an answer yet?

Answer 2

Hi, yes, according to this thread, QnA maker is still being supported. It's not clear whether Bot composer supports the new language service, will confirm and let you know!

Answer 3

This is an interesting one and I'm anxious to find out the answer. Per [Microsoft's documentation][1], we can no longer create QnA Maker resources. I'm guessing that's why my bots fail when I try to build the resources so I can publish them. It would be great if they'd build in the Cognitive Service functionality as the inability to provision resources and publish bots that need QnA / Cognitive Services puts the kabosh on the entire system for now.

Thanks to any and all who can find a solution!