Is there an option to convert a user’s message to lowercase before the NLU processing starts?
For instance, if a user sends What a Beautiful DAY I would like it to be converted to what a beautiful day and then allow my components to identify intents and extract entities.
Also, is there any way to map special characters to something else? e.g ό to o, or ϊ to ι. Does anyone know which file(s) should I edit to achieve this special character mapping?
hey @stavr
convert a user’s message to lowercase
if you’re using whitespace tokenizer, then you can set the case_sensitive to false.
map special characters to something else
for that specific case with umlauts you can configure CountVectorFeaturizer, and set strip_accents to unicode. More info here .
I hope that helps!
hey @degiz,
I actually managed to achieve the special character mapping by defining a custom method in facebook.py file which detects any special characters in user’s text and replaces them with predefined values inside a dictionary. It seems to work fine so far.
Thank you for replying and providing your solution! 