Intent Mapping Priority¶

This feature helps avoid ambiguity between parent and child Intents. The ambiguity can happen when the user input contains a combination of parent and child Intent sentences.

With Intent Mapping Priority, you choose whether you want to prioritize the current Intent or its child Intents. By giving priority to certain Intents, you can influence whether the parent or child Intents are more likely to be mapped.

How to Set up¶

To set a priority, do the following steps:

Open a Flow or create a new one.
In the upper-right corner of the Flow Editor page, select NLU.
On the Intent tab, click Create Intent.
Specify a unique name for the Intent and click Save.
Open created Intent and fill in the required fields.
In the Intent Mapping Priority field, select one of the following options:
- Prioritise This Intent — set a priority for the current parent Intent. By default, this option is set up.
- Prioritise Child Intents — set a priority for child Intents.
Save changes and click Build model.

Examples¶

Let's assume that we have the following Intent data:

|  Intent  | Intent name     | Sentence    |
| -------- | --------------- | ----------- |
| Parent   | Pizza           | Order pizza |
| Child 1  | Meat            | Ham         |
| Child 2  | Vegetarian      | Cheese      |

Consider various examples of how each option of the Intent Mapping Priority setting works.

Prioritise This Intent¶

Set up Prioritise This Intent for the parent Intent.

User input: Order pizza with ham

Result: intent: Pizza, intent score: 0.6

JSON: One object in the nlu.intentMapperResults.scores array

"scores": [
        {
          "id": "c6d49062-cbc4-432e-a29d-aa134957ceee",
          "name": "Pizza",
          "score": 0.6079136287011193,
          "negated": false,
          "confirmationSentence": null,
          "confirmationSentences": null,
          "disambiguationSentence": null,
          "flow": "a38ca509-9013-4e50-ba74-0ecb2080c642"
        }
      ]

Prioritise Child Intents¶

Set up Prioritise Child Intents for the parent Intent.

User input: Order pizza with ham

Result: intent: Meat, intent score: 0.53

JSON: Two objects in the nlu.intentMapperResults.scores array

"scores": [
        {
            "id": "b3995ba8-bb63-4182-bd3a-d03d20726818",
            "name": "Meat",
            "score": 0.5388954934850558,
            "negated": false,
            "confirmationSentence": null,
            "confirmationSentences": null,
            "disambiguationSentence": null,
            "flow": "a38ca509-9013-4e50-ba74-0ecb2080c642"
        },
        {
            "id": "5349765e-2945-4d8b-9d09-10dfb4166cb6",
            "name": "Vegetarian",
            "score": 0.17573281293469106,
            "negated": false,
            "confirmationSentence": null,
            "confirmationSentences": null,
            "disambiguationSentence": null,
            "flow": "a38ca509-9013-4e50-ba74-0ecb2080c642"
        }
      ]