Hey folks!
I’m still wrapping my head around the core building blocks of Rasa, and have a question about how forms and duckling entities interact.
My goal is to use duckling to recognize and pre-fill a slot with a time entity if provided in the intent, otherwise to fill that slot using a form. What I’m unsure about is how to declare the mapping from the slot name (in my case ‘month’) and the duckling entity time (‘time’).
All of my configuration (stories.md, nlu.md, actions.py, config.yml, domain.yml) is in this gist
This is the output of rasa shell -vv. As you can see, the right intent is triggering, and a time entity is being detected, however the month slot is not getting filled, causing the form to ask for information that the user has already provided.
I explicitly want to fill the month slot with the Duckling time entity - not the entity detected by the CRFEntityExtractor, as I want to be robust to multiple ways to specify time.
Jamess-iMac:rasa jmcgill$ rasa shell -vv
2020-02-22 10:59:13 DEBUG rasa.model - Extracted model to '/var/folders/m9/3qs5ykv90fg633r0z3b4534m0000gn/T/tmpq976ih6a'.
2020-02-22 10:59:13 DEBUG rasa.cli.utils - Parameter 'endpoints' not set. Using default location 'endpoints.yml' instead.
2020-02-22 10:59:13 DEBUG rasa.cli.utils - Parameter 'credentials' not set. Using default location 'credentials.yml' instead.
2020-02-22 10:59:14 DEBUG rasa.model - Extracted model to '/var/folders/m9/3qs5ykv90fg633r0z3b4534m0000gn/T/tmps07dqyz8'.
2020-02-22 10:59:14 INFO root - Connecting to channel 'cmdline' which was specified by the '--connector' argument. Any other channels will be ignored. To connect to all given channels, omit the '--connector' argument.
2020-02-22 10:59:14 DEBUG sanic.root - CORS: Configuring CORS with resources: {'/*': {'origins': [''], 'methods': 'DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT', 'allow_headers': ['.*'], 'expose_headers': None, 'supports_credentials': True, 'max_age': None, 'send_wildcard': False, 'automatic_options': True, 'vary_header': True, 'resources': {'/*': {'origins': ''}}, 'intercept_exceptions': True, 'always_send': True}}
2020-02-22 10:59:14 DEBUG rasa.core.utils - Available web server routes:
/webhooks/rest GET custom_webhook_CmdlineInput.health
/webhooks/rest/webhook POST custom_webhook_CmdlineInput.receive
/ GET hello
2020-02-22 10:59:14 INFO root - Starting Rasa server on http://localhost:5005
2020-02-22 10:59:14 DEBUG rasa.core.utils - Using the default number of Sanic workers (1).
2020-02-22 10:59:14 INFO root - Enabling coroutine debugging. Loop id 4501446680.
2020-02-22 10:59:14 DEBUG rasa.model - Extracted model to '/var/folders/m9/3qs5ykv90fg633r0z3b4534m0000gn/T/tmpjdedbsqu'.
2020-02-22 10:59:16 INFO absl - Entry Point [tensor2tensor.envs.tic_tac_toe_env:TicTacToeEnv] registered with id [T2TEnv-TicTacToeEnv-v0]
2020-02-22 10:59:17 DEBUG rasa.core.tracker_store - Connected to InMemoryTrackerStore.
2020-02-22 10:59:17 DEBUG rasa.core.lock_store - Connected to lock store 'InMemoryLockStore'.
2020-02-22 10:59:17 DEBUG rasa.model - Extracted model to '/var/folders/m9/3qs5ykv90fg633r0z3b4534m0000gn/T/tmph8hdsekp'.
2020-02-22 10:59:17 DEBUG pykwalify.compat - Using yaml library: /Users/jmcgill/.pyenv/versions/3.6.2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ruamel/yaml/__init__.py
2020-02-22 10:59:17 DEBUG rasa.core.nlg.generator - Instantiated NLG to 'TemplatedNaturalLanguageGenerator'.
Bot loaded. Type a message and press enter (use '/stop' to exit):
Your input -> I'd like to make a budget for January
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.tracker_store - Creating a new tracker for id 'default'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Starting a new session for conversation ID 'default'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Action 'action_session_start' ended with events '[<rasa.core.events.SessionStarted object at 0x14dfa5d68>, <rasa.core.events.ActionExecuted object at 0x14dfa5d30>]'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Current slot values:
month: None
requested_slot: None
2020-02-22 10:59:21 WARNING root - Could not parse timestamp 142977d52718485dadaf8bc1e8286b11. Instead current UTC time will be passed to duckling. Error: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '142977d52718485dadaf8bc1e8286b11'
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Received user message 'I'd like to make a budget for January' with intent '{'name': 'budget', 'confidence': 1.0}' and entities '[{'start': 30, 'end': 37, 'value': 'January', 'entity': 'time', 'confidence': 0.698574552065624, 'extractor': 'CRFEntityExtractor'}, {'start': 30, 'end': 37, 'text': 'January', 'value': '2021-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00', 'confidence': 1.0, 'additional_info': {'values': [{'value': '2021-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00', 'grain': 'month', 'type': 'value'}, {'value': '2022-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00', 'grain': 'month', 'type': 'value'}, {'value': '2023-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00', 'grain': 'month', 'type': 'value'}], 'value': '2021-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:00', 'grain': 'month', 'type': 'value'}, 'entity': 'time', 'extractor': 'DucklingHTTPExtractor'}]'
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Current slot values:
month: None
requested_slot: None
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Logged UserUtterance - tracker now has 4 events.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.fallback - NLU confidence threshold met, confidence of fallback action set to core threshold (0.3).
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.memoization - Current tracker state [None, None, None, {}, {'intent_budget': 1.0, 'prev_action_listen': 1.0, 'entity_time': 1.0}]
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.memoization - There is a memorised next action '14'
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.form_policy - There is no active form
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.ensemble - Predicted next action using policy_1_MemoizationPolicy
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Predicted next action 'budget_form' with confidence 1.00.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.actions.action - Calling action endpoint to run action 'budget_form'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Action 'budget_form' ended with events '[BotUttered('What month do you want to budget for?', {"elements": null, "quick_replies": null, "buttons": null, "attachment": null, "image": null, "custom": null}, {}, 1582387161.66399), <rasa.core.events.Form object at 0x14288be10>, <rasa.core.events.SlotSet object at 0x14e1eae48>]'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Current slot values:
month: None
requested_slot: month
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.fallback - NLU confidence threshold met, confidence of fallback action set to core threshold (0.3).
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.memoization - Current tracker state [None, None, None, {}, {'intent_budget': 1.0, 'prev_action_listen': 1.0, 'entity_time': 1.0}]
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.memoization - There is a memorised next action '14'
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.form_policy - There is an active form 'budget_form'
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.mapping_policy - There is no mapped action for the predicted intent, 'budget'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.policies.ensemble - Predicted next action using policy_2_FormPolicy
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Predicted next action 'action_listen' with confidence 1.00.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.processor - Action 'action_listen' ended with events '[]'.
2020-02-22 10:59:21 DEBUG rasa.core.lock_store - Deleted lock for conversation 'default'.
What month do you want to budget for?
Your input ->