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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

By : Leif Larsen
Book Image

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Take your app development to the next level with Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services. Using Leif's knowledge of each of the powerful APIs, you'll learn how to create smarter apps with more human-like capabilities. ? Discover what each API has to offer and learn how to add it to your app ? Study each AI using theory and practical examples ? Learn current API best practices
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Customer Feedback
Preface
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Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis

Chapter 7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context

By leveraging Azure Machine Learning and the Recommendations API, we have launched a new Personalized Commerce Experience for retailers that grows shopper conversion and engagement on any channel.

                                               - Frank Kouretas, Chief Product Officer at Orckestra

With the previous chapter, we covered the remaining Language APIs. In this chapter, we will look into the first two Knowledge APIs: the Entity Linking API and the Recommendations API. We will start by learning how to link entities in text. Using the Entity Linking API, we can identify different entities in text, based on the context. Moving on, we will look into the Recommendations API. This is well-suited for e-commerce applications, where you can recommend different items based on different criteria.

With this chapter completed, we will have covered the following topics:

  • Recognizing and identifying separate entities in text, based on context

  • Recommending...