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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By : Leif Larsen
Book Image

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for integrating artificial intelligence in your applications to solve logical business problems. If you’re new to developing applications with AI, Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services will give you a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft’s AI stack and get you up-to-speed in no time. The book introduces you to 24 APIs, including Emotion, Language, Vision, Speech, Knowledge, and Search. Using Visual Studio, you can develop applications with enhanced capabilities for image processing, speech recognition, text processing, and much more. Moving forward, you will work with datasets that enable your applications to process various data in the form of image, video, or text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to confidently explore Cognitive Services APIs for building intelligent applications that can be deployed for real-world business uses.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Index

Creating language-understanding models


Sometimes, we might wish that our computer could understand what we want. As we go on with our day-to-day business, we want to be able to talk to our computer, or mobile phone, using regular sentences. This is hard to do without any extra help.

Utilizing the power of LUIS, we can now solve this problem. By creating language-understanding models, we can allow applications to understand what users want. We can also recognize key data, which is, typically, data that you want to be part of a query or command. If you are asking for the latest news on a certain issue, then the key data would be the topic of the news that you are asking for.

Creating an application

To get started with LUIS, you should head over to https://www.luis.ai. This is where we will set up our application. Click on the Sign in or create an account button to get started.

Let's create our first application. Click on My Apps from the top menu. This should take you back to the application list...