Pega Intelligent Virtual Assistants™ (IVAs) and Pega Email Bots™ for conversational channels now support the new intelligent natural language processing (iNLP) text analyzer. This advanced text analyzer is decisioning enabled to help provide quicker and smarter responses. As a result, you can create more sophisticated IVAs and Email Bots that are based on decisioning strategies. The decisioning capability in the system integrates text analytics with strategies, propositions, and interaction history, to provide the context for making better next-best-action decisions. In addition, you now configure the text analyzers for all IVAs and Email Bots on the Behavior tab for each conversational channel.

The following screenshot shows the Behavior tab in the Web Chatbot channel configuration.

You can reuse a single instance of the advanced Interaction text analyzer in all of the conversational channels, for example, Email Bot, IVA for Facebook, and IVA for Web Chatbot. You can also define a separate text analyzer for Email Bot that performs text analysis of each area of interest, for example, the email body, the email attachments, and the email subject, respectively.

For more information, see Web Chatbot channel behavior, Configuring text analyzer definitions for the Web Chatbot channel, and Defining advanced Web Chatbot text analyzer configuration.