This one managed to slip past me, but recently Microsoft Language Understand Intelligent Service (LUIS) has been updated with a pre-built entity to match people’s names. Seems like an obvious requirement but is pretty tricky to implement. To match people’s names;
- Open your KB in the LUIS UI of your choice
- Go to the Entity menu
- select Add Prebuilt entity
- choose personName
Now you can create an Intent such as “Call” with “Call Jane” and “Jane” will be matched to personName. So far (and testing is difficult) I’ve thrown all my usual problematic name variants (Western, Nordic, Chinese, Indian) and it’s managed them all, even “Call peter phoxterd-hemmington-smythe” 🙂
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