TeamBuilder Bot

Inspiration

It was difficult to navigate the teams channel of the HackPrinceton Fall 2016 Slack team.

What it does

It reads a message in a slack channel. If it is a message looking for a member or looking for a group, it gives the user the list of members/groups that fit the description.

How I built it

I used LUIS to interpret the message to a JSON file. Then I used C# to iterate through the list. The bot was created using Microsoft Bot Framework.

Challenges I ran into

• It was a fairly recent technology, so there were not many tutorials that I could take advantage of.
  
• There was not enough data in HackPrinceton Slack channel, so I needed to create my own data to train LUIS.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• Creating a bot that could help Hackathon participants
  

What I learned

• How to use LUIS, Microsoft Bot Framework
  

What's next for TeamBuilder Bot

• Complete the Bot
• Deploying it to Azure
  
• Making it a full Slack Bot that can be used in any channel
  
• Giving users the ability to edit their preferences
  
• More training data for better LUIS accuracy
  
• More preferences available (currently the only one offered is language)
  

Built With

• c#
• microsoft-bot-framework
• microsoft-luis