Create a knowledge base

  • 3 minutes

To create a question answering solution, you can use the REST API or SDK to write code that defines, trains, and publishes the knowledge base. However, it is more common to use the Azure AI Language Studio web interface to define and manage a knowledge base.

To create a knowledge base:

  1. Create an Azure AI Language resource in your Azure subscription.

    • Enable the question answering feature.
    • Create or select an Azure Cognitive Search resource to host the knowledge base index.

  2. In Azure AI Language Studio, select the Language resource and create a Custom question answering project.

  3. Name the knowledge base.

  4. Add one or more data sources to populate the knowledge base:

    • URLs for web pages containing FAQs.
    • Files containing structured text from which questions and answers can be derived.
    • Pre-defined chit-chat datasets that include common conversational questions and responses in a specified style.

  5. Create the knowledge base and edit question and answer pairs in the portal.