Prebuilt Slots

Understanding Parloa's Duckling-based Pre-Built Slots

Pre-built slots enable you to process common user inputs consistently and efficiently. These slots, based on Duckling, simplify the extraction of key information from sentences. Let's explore how these pre-built slots work and how you can leverage them effectively.

Standardizing User Inputs

Imagine a user wants to repay a certain amount of money they owe. For instance:

Hi , I owe $60, can I pay this amount back please?

In this case, the extracted entity is the amount $60. This is where the amountOfMoney pre-built slot comes into play. It specializes in handling various currency types.

Using Pre-Built Slots Across Platforms

If you're utilizing platforms other than Phone 2 (such as Phone V2 or Textchat), it's important to define the pre-built slot types within each slot's respective Platforms tab. This ensures consistent behavior and understanding across different interfaces.

Prebuilt Slot Types

The following lists all the pre-built Slot types:

Type	Description
amountOfMoney	Currency types like 10 EUR, 2€, 1.34 Euro, 100 $.
distance	Distances, such as 10 km or 1 cm.
duration	Time durations like 1 second or 3 hours.
email	Email addresses, such as [email protected].
number	123 (No spaces between values)
ordinal	Description of an order 1st-45th.
phoneNumber	Phone numbers, including international formats like [phone].
dateTime	Moments in time, whether it's yesterday, today, or a specific time.
volume	Volume measurements, like 3 liters or 20 ml.
url	Web page addresses, such as www.parloa.com.
distanceInterval	An interval between two distances: 2 to 3 km, from three to five kilometers.
dateTimeInterval	The duration of time: last week, from yesterday to today, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
volumeInterval	A volume range: 3-5 liters, 20-50 ml.

Using Pre-Built Slots In a Response

When you select a prebuilt slot, the first tab Info displays all relevant information, including the Available Data in Javascript. The following example shows the Slot amountOfMoney's available date:

"slots": [
	{
		"extractor": "DucklingEntityExtractor",
		"value": {
			"value": 60,
			"unit": "EUR"
		},
		"confidence": 1,
		"entity": "amountOfMoney",
		"additionalInfo": {
			"value": 60,
			"type": "value",
			"unit": "EUR"
		},
		"start": 0,
		"end": 3,
		"processors": [],
		"text": "60€"
	}
]

Pre-Built Slots

The following table lists the pre-built slots, categorized by language and slot type.

To view all table columns, please scroll horizontally.

Language	amountOfMoney	creditCardNumber	distance	duration	email	numeral	ordinal	phoneNumber	quantity	temperature	time	timeGrain	url	volume
Afrikaans	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Arabic	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Bengali	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Bulgarian	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Burmese	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Catalan	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Chinese	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Croatian	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Czech	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Danish	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Dutch	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
English	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Estonian	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Finnish	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌
French	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Georgian	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
German	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Greek	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Hebrew	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Hindi	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌
Hungarian	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Icelandic	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Indonesian	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Irish	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Italian	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Japanese	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Kannada	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Khmer	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
Korean	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Lao	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Malayalam	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Mongolian	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
Nepali	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Norwegian-Bokmål	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Persian	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Polish	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Portuguese	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Romanian	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Russian	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅
Slovak	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Spanish	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Swahili	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Swedish	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Tamil	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Telugu	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Thai	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌
Turkish	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Ukrainian	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌
Vietnamese	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌

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