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NLP Manager

The NlpManager is able to manage several languages. It manages the named entities, and trains the NLP classifier for each language. Once trained, NlpManager is ready to process utterances. It will try to guess the language, if one isn't provided when processing an utterance. During processing, the NlpManager will:

  • Identify the language
  • Classify the utterance, using Machine Learning (ML)
  • Find named, and/or default entities in the utterance
  • Limit entities to those described with variables in the highest scoring intent, if present (variable syntax for intents uses wildcard operators %entity_name%)
  • Replace variables in the best answer with matched entities (variable syntax for answers uses handlebars: {{entity_name}})
  • Analyze sentiment
  • Return the intent, entities, classifications, associated score(s), answer, and sentiment

Note that periods are not supported in the entity names when using them as variables. Don't use {{entity.name}}. Use {{entity_name}} instead. The intent variable names must match the answer variable names.

const { NlpManager } = require('node-nlp');

const manager = new NlpManager({ languages: ['en'] });
manager.addNamedEntityText(
  'hero',
  'spiderman',
  ['en'],
  ['Spiderman', 'Spider-man'],
);
manager.addNamedEntityText(
  'hero',
  'iron man',
  ['en'],
  ['iron man', 'iron-man'],
);
manager.addNamedEntityText('hero', 'thor', ['en'], ['Thor']);
manager.addNamedEntityText(
  'food',
  'burguer',
  ['en'],
  ['Burguer', 'Hamburguer'],
);
manager.addNamedEntityText('food', 'pizza', ['en'], ['pizza']);
manager.addNamedEntityText('food', 'pasta', ['en'], ['Pasta', 'spaghetti']);
manager.addDocument('en', 'I saw %hero% eating %food%', 'sawhero');
manager.addDocument(
  'en',
  'I have seen %hero%, he was eating %food%',
  'sawhero',
);
manager.addDocument('en', 'I want to eat %food%', 'wanteat');
await manager.train();
manager
  .process('I saw spiderman eating spaghetti today in the city!')
  .then(result => console.log(result));
// { locale: 'en',
//   localeIso2: 'en',
//   language: 'English',
//   utterance: 'I saw spiderman eating spaghetti today in the city!',
//   classification:
//    [ { label: 'sawhero', value: 0.9920519933583061 },
//      { label: 'wanteat', value: 0.00794800664169383 } ],
//   intent: 'sawhero',
//   score: 0.9920519933583061,
//   entities:
//    [ { start: 6,
//        end: 15,
//        levenshtein: 0,
//        accuracy: 1,
//        option: 'spiderman',
//        sourceText: 'Spiderman',
//        entity: 'hero',
//        utteranceText: 'spiderman' },
//      { start: 23,
//        end: 32,
//        levenshtein: 0,
//        accuracy: 1,
//        option: 'pasta',
//        sourceText: 'spaghetti',
//        entity: 'food',
//        utteranceText: 'spaghetti' } ],
//   sentiment:
//    { score: 0.708,
//      comparative: 0.07866666666666666,
//      vote: 'positive',
//      numWords: 9,
//      numHits: 2,
//      type: 'senticon',
//      language: 'en' } }

Saving and Loading Models

NlpManager has support for saving, and loading the models of trained managers. These models include the thetas that are produced by the ML algorithms, so they can be loaded into instances of NlpManager without having to train them again.

In addition to reducing startup time, this can be useful when a system doesn't have write permissions to local disk, or in cases where we benefit from deterministic results, such as A/B testing (or testing in general).

There are two approaches to saving and loading models: using files, and using JSON.

Save/Load Using Files

NlpManager.save writes a model file to disk, and NlpManager.load reads a model file from disk.

Saving a model file:

const { NlpManager } = require('node-nlp');

const manager = new NlpManager({ languages: ['en'] });
await manager.train();
manager.save(filename);

Loading a model file:

const { NlpManager } = require('node-nlp');

manager = new NlpManager();
manager.load(filename);

Note that if no filename is provided, './model.nlp' will be used by default.

Import/Export Using JSON

NlpManager.export returns a model in JSON format, and NlpManager.import reads a model in JSON format. When exporting a model, you can choose whether or not to minify it.

Exporting a model:

const { NlpManager } = require('node-nlp');

const minified = true;
const manager = new NlpManager();
// ...
await manager.train();
const data = manager.export(minified);

Importing a model:

const fs = require('fs');
const { NlpManager } = require('node-nlp');

const data = fs.readFileSync('model.nlp', 'utf8');
const manager = new NlpManager();
manager.import(data);
// ...

Context

You can also provide a context to NlpManger.process so the NLG changes its behaviour based on the context.

In this example, the manager chooses, "Till next time, {{name}}!" as the answer, and is able to use the %name% in the answer because context from the greeting is provided. The final result is, "Till next time, John!".

const { NlpManager, ConversationContext } = require('node-nlp');

const manager = new NlpManager({ languages: ['en'] });
const context = new ConversationContext();

manager.addDocument('en', 'Hello my name is %name%', 'greeting.hello');
manager.addDocument('en', 'I have to go', 'greeting.bye');
manager.addAnswer('en', 'greeting.hello', 'Hey there!');
manager.addAnswer('en', 'greeting.bye', 'Till next time, {{name}}!');

manager.train()
  .then(result => manager.process('en', 'Hello my name is John', context))
  .then(result => manager.process('en', 'I have to go', context))
  .then(result => console.log(result.answer));

Transformers

The NLPManager constructor accepts a processTransformer function, which can be used to intercept, and modify the output of the manager's process function. When present, it will run after process completes, and the result of this function is what will be returned by process.

const manager = new NlpManager({
  processTransformer: async (originalProcessOutput) => {
    return {
      ...originalProcessOutput,
      ...{
        anything: 'you want'
      }
    }
  }
});

or with Promises:

const manager = new NlpManager({
  processTransformer: (originalProcessOutput) => new Promise((resolve, reject) =>  {
      originalProcessOutput.context = 'modify or add properties'
      resolve(originalProcessOutput)
  })
});

it can be synchronous, too:

const manager = new NlpManager({
  processTransformer: function (originalProcessOutput) {
    return Object.assign(originalProcessOutput, { anything: 'you want' })
  }
});