A narrow depression, notch, or opening, especially one for receiving something such as a coin or letter: The envelope had a slot in it for a postage stamp. A position within a group, series, or sequence: The program was scheduled in the eight o’clock slot on Thursdays.
A type of casino game where a person can place a wager on a specific set of numbers that correspond to symbols on the reels. In some cases, the winning combinations result in a jackpot payout. Whether or not this jackpot payout is life-changing depends on the size of the bet and the probability of hitting it. Some people believe that increasing the size of a player’s wager when they are winning will increase their chances of hitting the jackpot, but this is untrue. Since online slots rely on RNGs (Random Number Generators) to determine the outcome of each spin, the amount of money that players win is determined by the odds of winning.
In Dialog Engine, a slot is a discrete piece of information derived from an utterance that is used to understand the user’s intent and fulfill it. Each slot is mapped to a Slot Type, which determines the type of information the bot should look for in an utterance that contains that particular slot. Slot types are also referred to as entity values in the context of machine learning. You can create custom slot types using regular expressions to identify specific patterns in utterances. For example, if you want your chatbot to recognize NYC as the city of New York, you can add a slot for that entity value by clicking Add Slot Type from the Slots page and choosing Regular Expression as the slot type.