Create a QnA Maker knowledge base

APPLIES TO: Composer v1.x and v2.x

Note

Azure QnA Maker will be retired on 31 March 2025. Beginning 1 October 2022, you won't be able to create new QnA Maker resources or knowledge bases. A newer version of the question and answering capability is now available as part of Azure AI Language.

Custom question answering, a feature of Azure AI Language, is the updated version of the QnA Maker service. For more information about question-and-answer support in Composer, see Natural language processing.

If you're looking for how to add a QnA Maker knowledge base to your bot, read Add a QnA Maker knowledge base to your bot. You have the following ways for using QnA Maker in Composer:

Additional information

• Manage QnA Maker resources.
• Add a QnA Maker knowledge base to your bot in Composer.
• .qna file format.