What is NLU?

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is the ability to understand the intention of a text and extract interesting information like names, dates, locations, brands or any custom set of values or both.

What are the types of NLU requests you can make with AI Studio?

On the NLU side, we have the nodes: Intents, Entities, and, Parameters

NLU is used in AI Studio mainly for handling two types of requests.

Intent Classification - Understand the intention or action of the user from text

Entity Extraction - Extract interesting parts of the text like names, dates, locations, brands or any custom set of values

How is NLU priced?

NLU is charged per text request @0.007/text request. An NLU request to classify an intent OR extracting an entity or entities from a given sentence considered as a text request.

Sample conversation

"Hi, David here. Is Michael available to chat about the weather?"

Intent 

"chat availability"

Entities

CALLER (sys.names) = "David"

RECIPIENT (sys.names) = "Michael"

CALL_SUBJECT (sys.any) = "Weather"

Cost : 1 text request containing an intent classification and entities extraction x $0.007 = $0.007

Which languages are supported by NLU? 

All the languages supported by AI Studio are supported by NLU as well. Please check the list of languages.