Prevent Duckling from auto-filling slots based on intent

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I am using Duckling to extract dates & times from user input in my bot.

By default, any time Duckling can extract a date or time from a message, it does, and saves that to the time slot. Regardless of the intent of the message.

However, sometimes a user will say something like “I’m not sure if I have time today.” In this case, Duckling reads “today” as a date, and sets the time slot as such. When this happens, it messes with some logic I have built for my custom forms and actions.

Is there any way to have Duckling only auto-fill slots for certain intents? i.e. I have an intent called “inform” which is for things like “i’m available at 3pm today”, and I only want Duckling to fill the time slot when a message has the “inform” intent. If a user just happens to use the word “today” or mentions a time in another context, I do not want Duckling to extract & save that to the time slot.

Thanks!

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Hi,

I have the same question, does anyone know how to handle this?

Thanks!

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I am also struggling with the same. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

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Unfortunately there is no implementation where you can filter based on intents.

Fortunately you can always create your custom component

Just copy this extractor code as a custom python file based on the instructions on creating custom components and change this method to escape filter matches if intent is NOT inform

I am not sure if this is a generic enough feature to be included in the main rasa pipeline but you can always customise the implementation to your liking. I do that all the time.

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