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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

Summary


Throughout this chapter, we have learned about the Project Academic Knowledge API and Project Knowledge Exploration Service. We looked at how to interpret natural language queries to get query expressions for evaluation. Through this evaluation, we have retrieved academic papers from the Microsoft Academic Graph knowledge base. From there, we learned how to set up the Knowledge Exploration Service itself, going from defining the schemas all the way to deploying it to a Microsoft Azure cloud service. In the end, we learned how to set up a simple QnA Maker service.

In the next chapter, we will move on to looking at search APIs, learning how to utilize the different search APIs offered by Bing.