$caila.cdqaQuery

This method retrieves excerpts from a document uploaded to a CDQA module in the knowledge base.

Syntax

The method accepts the following arguments:

Argument	Type	Required	Description
query	String	Yes	Query text.
moduleName	String	Yes	CDQA module name, such as CDQA.Our courses.
threshold	Number	No	The threshold which determines the minimum required confidence in the correctness of CDQA responses. Its value should be between 0 (not included) and 1 (included). The default value is 0.5.
classifierToken	String	No	The NLP Direct API key. The default value is the API key of the current project. You should only pass this argument if the bot and the CDQA module are in different projects.

ECMAScript 5

$caila.cdqaQuery("What is CDQA?", "CDQA.Knowledge base", 0.3);

ECMAScript 6

In the ECMAScript 6 runtime, the method is asynchronous:

await $caila.cdqaQuery("What is CDQA?", "CDQA.Knowledge base", 0.3);

The method returns an object with the following properties:

Property	Type	Description
predicted	String	The CDQA response with the highest score higher than the threshold.
variants	Array of strings	A list of CDQA responses with a score higher than the threshold.
raw	Object	The full CDQA response body. It contains a list of all responses with metadata, as well as the excerpt from which they were retrieved.

tip

If the CDQA query didn’t return any suitable response, the predicted value will be null, and variants will be an empty array.

{
  "predicted": "a question answering system based on machine learning",
  "variants": [
    "a question answering system based on machine learning"
  ],
  "raw": {
    "output": [
      {
        "extracted_texts_list": [
          {
            "texts": [
              {
                "start_index": 47, // The position within `source_text` where the response begins
                "end_index": 100, // The position within `source_text` where the response ends
                "confidence": 0.65422564744949341, // The value of confidence in response correctness
                "text": "a question answering system based on machine learning"
              },
              {
                "start_index": 10,
                "end_index": 42,
                "confidence": 0.081722691655159,
                "text": "Closed Domain Question Answering"
              }
            ],
            "source_text": "The CDQA (Closed Domain Question Answering) is a question answering system based on machine learning.",
            "source_text_score": 0.265350878238678
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

How to use

Add the $caila.cdqaQuery method to the global state for handling unrecognized requests to enable the bot to use CDQA responses.

ECMAScript 5

state: NoMatch
    event!: noMatch
    script:
        var result = $caila.cdqaQuery($request.query, "CDQA.Our courses", 0.5);
        if (result.predicted) {
            $reactions.answer(result.predicted);
        } else {
            $reactions.answer("I didn’t find the answer in my documents. Ask something else!");
        }

ECMAScript 6

state: NoMatch
    event!: noMatch
    scriptEs6:
        var result = await $caila.cdqaQuery($request.query, "CDQA.Our courses", 0.5);
        if (result.predicted) {
            $reactions.answer(result.predicted);
        } else {
            $reactions.answer("I didn’t find the answer in my documents. Ask something else!");
        }