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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
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
12
Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis

Exploring text using linguistic analysis


Using the Linguistic Analysis API, we can explore the structure of text. We can access part-of-speech tagging and parsing, which allows us to tap into important concepts and actions. By using this API, we can understand the structure of a text. This can help us if we are mining customer feedback, interpreting user commands, or consuming web text.

As linguistic analysis is an advanced topic, we will not dive into all its details. Instead, we will go through a quick introduction to key concepts, and then see how we can do the analysis itself. We will not spend time on parsing the resulting data for the UI, so we will simply print the JSON result.

Note

For more information on linguistic analysis and natural language analysis, please refer to the following Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing.

Introduction to linguistic analysis

At the time of writing, there are currently three available tools in the API. These are...