Detect intent with sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis inspects user input and identifies the prevailing subjective opinion to determine a user's attitude as positive, negative, or neutral. When making a detect intent request, you can enable sentiment analysis, and the response will contain sentiment analysis values.

The Natural Language API is used by Dialogflow to perform this analysis. For more information on the API and documentation on interpreting Dialogflow sentiment analysis results, see the following:

• Sentiment Analysis
• Interpreting sentiment analysis values

Note: In cases where the sentiment analysis score is 0, the returned sentimentAnalysisResult field will be empty. If you prefer explicit 0 values in the response, see the $outputDefaults system parameter.

Supported languages

For a list of supported languages, see the sentiment column on the Languages page. If you request sentiment analysis for an unsupported language, your detect intent request does not fail, but the QueryResult.diagnostic_info field contains error information.

Before you begin

This feature is only applicable when using the API for end-user interactions. If you are using an integration, you can skip this guide.

Before you begin, complete the following steps:

• Read Dialogflow basics.
• Perform setup steps.

Create an agent

1. Go to the Dialogflow ES console.
2. Sign in to the console if prompted. For more information, see the Dialogflow console overview.
3. In the sidebar menu, expand Loading agents.
4. Click Create new agent.
5. Enter the agent name, default language, and default time zone.
6. Enter an existing project. To let the Dialogflow console create a project, select Create a new Google project.
7. Click Create.

Agent settings for sentiment analysis

You can trigger sentiment analysis per detect intent request, or you can configure your agent to always return sentiment analysis results.

Note: Even if an agent is configured to use sentiment analysis, Actions on Google requests won't receive sentiment analysis results.

To enable sentiment analysis for all queries:

1. Go to the Dialogflow ES console.
2. Select an agent.
3. Select the settings icon next to the agent name.
4. Select the Advanced tab.
5. Turn on Enable sentiment analysis for the current query.

Use the Dialogflow simulator

You can interact with the agent and receive sentiment analysis results using the Dialogflow simulator:

1. Enter "Thank you for helping me."
2. View the SENTIMENT section at the bottom of the simulator. It shows a positive sentiment score.
3. Enter "It didn't work at all." in the simulator.
4. View the SENTIMENT section at the bottom of the simulator. It shows a negative sentiment score.

Note: When a very negative sentiment is returned, you can hand off unsatisfied users to live agents, or understand which intents lead to the most negative customer sentiment. An example of a handoff implementation can be found on GitHub.

Detect intent

To detect intent, call the detectIntent method on the Sessions type.

REST

Call the detectIntent method and provide the sentimentAnalysisRequestConfig field.

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

• PROJECT_ID: your Google Cloud project ID
• SESSION_ID: a session ID

HTTP method and URL:

POST https://dialogflow.googleapis.com/v2/projects/PROJECT_ID/agent/sessions/SESSION_ID:detectIntent

Request JSON body:

{
  "queryParams": {
    "sentimentAnalysisRequestConfig": {
      "analyzeQueryTextSentiment": true
    }
  },
  "queryInput": {
    "text": {
      "text": "please reserve an amazing meeting room for six people",
      "languageCode": "en-US"
    }
  }
}

To send your request, expand one of these options:

curl (Linux, macOS, or Cloud Shell)

Note: The following command assumes that you have logged in to the gcloud CLI with your user account by running gcloud init or gcloud auth login , or by using Cloud Shell, which automatically logs you into the gcloud CLI . You can check the currently active account by running gcloud auth list.

Save the request body in a file named request.json, and execute the following command:

curl -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     -H "x-goog-user-project: PROJECT_ID" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     -d @request.json \
     "https://dialogflow.googleapis.com/v2/projects/PROJECT_ID/agent/sessions/SESSION_ID:detectIntent"

PowerShell (Windows)

Note: The following command assumes that you have logged in to the gcloud CLI with your user account by running gcloud init or gcloud auth login . You can check the currently active account by running gcloud auth list.

Save the request body in a file named request.json, and execute the following command:

$cred = gcloud auth print-access-token
$headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer $cred"; "x-goog-user-project" = "PROJECT_ID" }

Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Method POST `
    -Headers $headers `
    -ContentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8" `
    -InFile request.json `
    -Uri "https://dialogflow.googleapis.com/v2/projects/PROJECT_ID/agent/sessions/SESSION_ID:detectIntent" | Select-Object -Expand Content

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

{
  "responseId": "747ee176-acc5-46be-8d9a-b7ef9c2b9199",
  "queryResult": {
    "queryText": "please reserve an amazing meeting room for six people",
    "action": "room.reservation",
    "parameters": {
      "date": "",
      "duration": "",
      "guests": 6,
      "location": "",
      "time": ""
    },
    "fulfillmentText": "I can help with that. Where would you like to reserve a room?",
    ...
    "sentimentAnalysisResult": {
      "queryTextSentiment": {
        "score": 0.8,
        "magnitude": 0.8
      }
    }
  }
}

Notice that the sentimentAnalysisResult field contains score and magnitude values.

Java

To authenticate to Dialogflow CX, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.api.gax.rpc.ApiException;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.DetectIntentRequest;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.DetectIntentResponse;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.QueryInput;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.QueryParameters;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.QueryResult;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.SentimentAnalysisRequestConfig;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.SessionName;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.SessionsClient;
import com.google.cloud.dialogflow.v2.TextInput;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class DetectIntentWithSentimentAnalysis {

  public static Map<String, QueryResult> detectIntentSentimentAnalysis(
      String projectId, List<String> texts, String sessionId, String languageCode)
      throws IOException, ApiException {
    Map<String, QueryResult> queryResults = Maps.newHashMap();
    // Instantiates a client
    try (SessionsClient sessionsClient = SessionsClient.create()) {
      // Set the session name using the sessionId (UUID) and projectID (my-project-id)
      SessionName session = SessionName.of(projectId, sessionId);
      System.out.println("Session Path: " + session.toString());

      // Detect intents for each text input
      for (String text : texts) {
        // Set the text (hello) and language code (en-US) for the query
        TextInput.Builder textInput =
            TextInput.newBuilder().setText(text).setLanguageCode(languageCode);

        // Build the query with the TextInput
        QueryInput queryInput = QueryInput.newBuilder().setText(textInput).build();

        //
        SentimentAnalysisRequestConfig sentimentAnalysisRequestConfig =
            SentimentAnalysisRequestConfig.newBuilder().setAnalyzeQueryTextSentiment(true).build();

        QueryParameters queryParameters =
            QueryParameters.newBuilder()
                .setSentimentAnalysisRequestConfig(sentimentAnalysisRequestConfig)
                .build();
        DetectIntentRequest detectIntentRequest =
            DetectIntentRequest.newBuilder()
                .setSession(session.toString())
                .setQueryInput(queryInput)
                .setQueryParams(queryParameters)
                .build();

        // Performs the detect intent request
        DetectIntentResponse response = sessionsClient.detectIntent(detectIntentRequest);

        // Display the query result
        QueryResult queryResult = response.getQueryResult();

        System.out.println("====================");
        System.out.format("Query Text: '%s'\n", queryResult.getQueryText());
        System.out.format(
            "Detected Intent: %s (confidence: %f)\n",
            queryResult.getIntent().getDisplayName(), queryResult.getIntentDetectionConfidence());
        System.out.format(
            "Fulfillment Text: '%s'\n",
            queryResult.getFulfillmentMessagesCount() > 0
                ? queryResult.getFulfillmentMessages(0).getText()
                : "Triggered Default Fallback Intent");
        System.out.format(
            "Sentiment Score: '%s'\n",
            queryResult.getSentimentAnalysisResult().getQueryTextSentiment().getScore());

        queryResults.put(text, queryResult);
      }
    }
    return queryResults;
  }
}

Node.js

To authenticate to Dialogflow CX, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Imports the Dialogflow client library
const dialogflow = require('@google-cloud/dialogflow').v2;

// Instantiate a DialogFlow client.
const sessionClient = new dialogflow.SessionsClient();

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
 */
// const projectId = 'ID of GCP project associated with your Dialogflow agent';
// const sessionId = `user specific ID of session, e.g. 12345`;
// const query = `phrase(s) to pass to detect, e.g. I'd like to reserve a room for six people`;
// const languageCode = 'BCP-47 language code, e.g. en-US';

// Define session path
const sessionPath = sessionClient.projectAgentSessionPath(
  projectId,
  sessionId
);

async function detectIntentandSentiment() {
  // The text query request.
  const request = {
    session: sessionPath,
    queryInput: {
      text: {
        text: query,
        languageCode: languageCode,
      },
    },
    queryParams: {
      sentimentAnalysisRequestConfig: {
        analyzeQueryTextSentiment: true,
      },
    },
  };

  // Send request and log result
  const responses = await sessionClient.detectIntent(request);
  console.log('Detected intent');
  const result = responses[0].queryResult;
  console.log(`  Query: ${result.queryText}`);
  console.log(`  Response: ${result.fulfillmentText}`);
  if (result.intent) {
    console.log(`  Intent: ${result.intent.displayName}`);
  } else {
    console.log('  No intent matched.');
  }
  if (result.sentimentAnalysisResult) {
    console.log('Detected sentiment');
    console.log(
      `  Score: ${result.sentimentAnalysisResult.queryTextSentiment.score}`
    );
    console.log(
      `  Magnitude: ${result.sentimentAnalysisResult.queryTextSentiment.magnitude}`
    );
  } else {
    console.log('No sentiment Analysis Found');
  }

Python

To authenticate to Dialogflow CX, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def detect_intent_with_sentiment_analysis(project_id, session_id, texts, language_code):
    """Returns the result of detect intent with texts as inputs and analyzes the
    sentiment of the query text.

    Using the same `session_id` between requests allows continuation
    of the conversation."""
    from google.cloud import dialogflow

    session_client = dialogflow.SessionsClient()

    session_path = session_client.session_path(project_id, session_id)
    print("Session path: {}\n".format(session_path))

    for text in texts:
        text_input = dialogflow.TextInput(text=text, language_code=language_code)

        query_input = dialogflow.QueryInput(text=text_input)

        # Enable sentiment analysis
        sentiment_config = dialogflow.SentimentAnalysisRequestConfig(
            analyze_query_text_sentiment=True
        )

        # Set the query parameters with sentiment analysis
        query_params = dialogflow.QueryParameters(
            sentiment_analysis_request_config=sentiment_config
        )

        response = session_client.detect_intent(
            request={
                "session": session_path,
                "query_input": query_input,
                "query_params": query_params,
            }
        )

        print("=" * 20)
        print("Query text: {}".format(response.query_result.query_text))
        print(
            "Detected intent: {} (confidence: {})\n".format(
                response.query_result.intent.display_name,
                response.query_result.intent_detection_confidence,
            )
        )
        print("Fulfillment text: {}\n".format(response.query_result.fulfillment_text))
        # Score between -1.0 (negative sentiment) and 1.0 (positive sentiment).
        print(
            "Query Text Sentiment Score: {}\n".format(
                response.query_result.sentiment_analysis_result.query_text_sentiment.score
            )
        )
        print(
            "Query Text Sentiment Magnitude: {}\n".format(
                response.query_result.sentiment_analysis_result.query_text_sentiment.magnitude
            )
        )