Virtual Agent Flashcards
What is Virtual Agent?
A conversational bot platform for providing user assistance through conversations within a messaging interface.
What issues does Virtual Agent solve?
Bad customer experience
Rising IT costs
Decreased employee satisfaction
A system designed to perform tasks that emulate or surpass a human level capability.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
A list of chat clients that can execute the topic or topic block.
Additional Channel Support
The NLU intent, when recognized by VA, launches a specific topic.
Associated Intent
Controls that display responses from the bot in a conversation.
Bot Response
Mechanism for organizing and grouping related Virtual Agent objects (topics, topic blocks, custom components).
Category
A program that is capable of having human-like conversations.
Chatbot
The method that users interact with VA (i.e., ServiceNow service portal, Now Mobile, Slack, Teams, Workplace, Facebook Messenger, or other
messengers using custom chat integrations).
Client Interface
A variable to store user answers or specific information about how the user interacts with the virtual agent (i.e., device type, language, service portal name).
Context Variables
Mechanism that uses a pre-chat survey to execute/display a specific topic automatically.
Context Topic Intent
Custom components that can be created and used in topics or topic blocks.
Custom Controls
Part of the Utterance and is the object or context (details) of the action.
Entity
A topic that shows a standard message or executes a different conversational flow when the virtual agent does not understand the user’s entry or selection.
Fallback Topic
Part of the Utterance and is an action someone intends to do.
Intent
A list of key phrases or terms that users enter to initiate a conversation.
Keyword
VA provides users the ability to speak with agents who answer requests or queries.
Live Agent Chat/Live Chat
A list of context variables provides and transfers information from the conversation to a live agent.
Live Agent Variable
A subset of AI that provides the ability to improve from experience. This is done by using algorithms, mathematics, and statistics to create models that make predictions/decisions. Approaches to ML can include both supervised and unsupervised learning.
Machine Learning (ML)
Third-party messaging applications that Virtual Agent can integrate with (i.e., Slack, Teams, Workplace, Facebook Messenger).
Messaging App
NLU is the ServiceNow application of NLU. NLU enables systems to learn and respond to human-expressed intents (requests).
Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
A collection of utterances and their associated intents that the system uses as a reference to predict intents and entities.
NLU Model
A service that trains and predicts NLU models so that the system can understand natural language.
NLU Inference Service
Tool used to build, test, and train NLU models.
NLU Workbench
A specific control within a topic flow.
Node
A collection of topics displayed to users before the “Show me everything” button. These topics are used to give users quick and convenient access to specific topics.
Promoted Topics
Reusable components that execute common tasks and or conversational elements in conversations.
Reusable Topic Block
A switch that enables/disables the option for a user to return to the original conversation after changing topics during a conversation.
Resume Topic Flow
Topics that provide answers to a simple question asked during a conversation, such as a date or time.
Small Talk Topic
A profile that defines how Virtual Agent search results are generated through the AI Search application and how the results are displayed to users.
Search Profile