Regex to entity

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@divyank have you considered using forms for that case? you can read about it in the slot filling section of our docs

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@akelad I want my bot to take my Employee id and then go back to the database and fetch my user name. My bot is working fine for only those entries which i have provided in nlu.md. For ex.

intent:example

  • My Employee id is [98987676] (person_id)

So when bot is uttering back results then it is only working for the emp id which i have given in nlu.md. Note i am not using regex. Please advise.

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You have to give multiple examples with entities matching that regex and none without so that the bot will learn that matching that regex is a good sign for that entity.

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How to use regex in nlu.md. Can you help ?

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Here’s an example for a german zipcode

## regex:zipcode
- \b\d{5}\b

so ## regex:{entity_name} follow by the regular expression(s), you want to match. Additionaly, the RegexFeaturizer has to be part of your NLU pipeline (before your intent classifier)

That’s what the docs say

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I have a Pipeline pipeline: supervised_embeddings in my config.yml. What should be the format for adding another pipeline ?

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Looks likes the RegexFeaturizer is part of the supervised_embeddings pipeline per default. If the RegexFeaturizer is active, it should be mentioned in the model’s training log. If you want to be 100% sure, just copy the supervised_embedding pipeline from the docs

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I tried by running this but now Bot is not returning any name. I have mentioned the following

regex:empid

  • [0-9]{6}

As much i understand this means from digit 0-9 repeated 6 times. Am i correct? Also after training the data i don’t see empid entry in - Found intents.

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Did you add several examples like this?

## intent:example
* My Employee id is [98987676] (person_id)

Around 10 examples with person_id-entities should do the job.

btw I just noted that your example here is an 8-digit string, but your regex says 6 digits. This has to be consistent

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Ok so now my training data should look like

regex:empid

  • [0-9]{6}
  • My empid is [123456] (person_id)
  • Here is my emp id [654321] (person_id) and so on
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No, the examples sentences have to be in an intent section like usual.

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do i need to mention regex name in my stories ?

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No. Use the entity with regex like any other entity without a regex. Only difference is that you add the lines mentioned above.

## regex:zipcode
- \b\d{5}\b
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Hi,

i have tried the same thing you said @IgNoRaNt23, but still it didnot work,can you help me in this

35

How do you know, that it did not work?

36

Hi,

i tried this and on putting more than 10 entries, it started working, thanks for your help. Regards, Pausali

37

how you configured domain file for this?

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There don’t have to be any changes in the domain-file as long as the entity is specified.

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It’s the same case happening for my case study when I am trying to use regex to read email id and hence send email. What can be the reason? Anyone? *It’s sending email only if I input abcd.xyz@gmail.com- same as in the example I gave

Nlu:

regex:email

  • [a-zA-Z0-9_.+]+@[a-zA-Z]+[.][a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$

intent:affirm

Stories:

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Welcome to the community!

You have to add several examples with different emails, otherwise Rasa thinks that the email is a constant.

## intent: affirm
- [abcd.xyz@gmail.com](email)
- [xyz@yahoo.com](email)
- [bff@hotmail.co.uk](email)
- [john.doe@mail.com.br](email)
... more examples ...

Also, glancing at your regex, there are a couple of things wrong with it… A domain can contain numbers (ie. b2b.com) and a TLD cannot contain numbers or end with a period (your regex accepts hotmail.co2m or hotmail.com., which are invalid).

I suggest you try your regexs here: RegularExpressions101 or somewhere like that.

Please enclose code blocks with three ` characters (or indent it with 4 spaces if your typeing), so that it’s not converted to markdown. It makes it so much easier to read.

Cheers!