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Ashish
Ashish

Reputation: 363

LUIS Offline Support

  1. This might be a basic query but I wanted to confirm if there is any way of using the LUIS services/functionality offline without consuming the online APIs and generating the public key online. By offline, I mean to say if there are any supporting libraries/DLLs available for on-premise solutions by which we can build the Intends/Utterences/Entities and train the NLP system offline.

    (The reason for asking this question is that I want to integrate LUIS with my existing Microsoft Bot application. However, our organization limits the software usage to utilize only on-premise offline software and any online software/services/APIs such as Azure APIs are restricted.)

  2. Assuming that there is no such offline support for LUIS AI, are there any other libraries that would provide such support for .NET apps. I have come across Apache OpenNLP but that seems to more of Java-oriented offering.

Any inputs/suggestions on this would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 723

Answers (2)

Nicolas R
Nicolas R

Reputation: 14619

LUIS is based on an online use, like almost all Microsoft Cognitive Services (except Custom vision compact models for example). There is no possibility for offline use, even if it may be useful for some cases like mobile use also.

Moreover (see here in the official documentation):

Is LUIS available on-premises or in private cloud? => No

For your 2nd question, StackOverflow may not be the right place for this (see https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic) and... I don't have a good solution! But would be interested to know one

Upvotes: 1

Christian Matthew
Christian Matthew

Reputation: 4379

Luis now has the ability to be fully off-cloud and on-premise through a docker container pull. This would be available for on-premise and Azure's IoT Edge (intelligent Edge) products.

Keep in mind The described solution still requires a connection for Azure LUIS billing purposes that at the time of this writing is at a 15 minute interval. I believe this will be adjusted at some point in the future but it is something to keep in mind and plan for.

Link to Container Support in Azure Cognitive Services

As well, specifically, LUIS has full integration via this scenario. Where you can install and run LUIS docker containers. Please, keep in mind at the time of this writing this is ONLY for LUIS. Not QNA, not Bing Spell Check, *not analytics from the LUIS endpoints but there is a container work around for that.

Also, not speech priming or sentiment analysis and a few other features listed in the article.

Lastly, you can look into "Azure Stack" and IoT Edge here

It's a promising start. There are work arounds you may have to engineer while these services bare out more fruit but keep asking questions and keep raising concerns and more features will surely come!

Upvotes: 2

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