How to integrate an external NLP technique to Dialogflow?

Question

I would like to use Dialogflow interface to create a voice assisted chatbot. Still, I would like to be able to add my own components to it. How can this be done ? If I have a python script with an NLP technique I'd want to add to my chatbot. Dialogflow is mainly about NER and let's say I want to add TFIDF and text simplification to what's retrieved in my document. I looked at the documentation and couldn't find anything on the subject.

Answer 1

you can use a Webhook: each intent is 'forwarded' to your webhook (ie custom app or script) and you have full access to the text provided by the user as well as the DialogFlow contexts/entities. In your webhook you can can do what you want, including modifying the response to the user.

Hope it helps.

Beppe