Activate Virtual Agent conversations with NLU

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 1 minute to read
  • Integrate Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models with your Virtual Agent chatbot topics so that chatbots can analyze and understand the user's provided information. The chatbot can navigate the user to the right topic based on the inferred intent.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin, virtual_agent_admin

    About this task

    The Field Service NLU Model for Virtual Agent Conversations plugin (com.sn_fsm.nlu) is automatically enabled when you enable the Field Service Virtual Agent Conversations plugin (com.sn_fsm.virtualagent).

    After enabling the plugin, you can view the following read-only intents for the Field Service NLU models in Studio:
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    To use these intents, you must train and publish the predefined Field Service NLU for VA model. For more information, see Train your NLU model and Publish your NLU model.

    Procedure

    1. Enable ServiceNow NLU in Virtual Agent.
    2. Optional: Customize an intent by importing an existing intent from the Field Service NLU for Virtual Agent model.
      For more information, see Import an NLU intent.
    3. Link the NLU model with associated intents in the Virtual Agent topics.