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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Second Edition

By : Leif Larsen
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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Second Edition

By: Leif Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft has revamped its Project Oxford to launch the all new Cognitive Services platform-a set of 30 APIs to add speech, vision, language, and knowledge capabilities to apps. This book will introduce you to 24 of the APIs released as part of Cognitive Services platform and show you how to leverage their capabilities. More importantly, you'll see how the power of these APIs can be combined to build real-world apps that have cognitive capabilities. The book is split into three sections: computer vision, speech recognition and language processing, and knowledge and search. You will be taken through the vision APIs at first as this is very visual, and not too complex. The next part revolves around speech and language, which are somewhat connected. The last part is about adding real-world intelligence to apps by connecting them to Knowledge and Search APIs. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to understand what Microsoft Cognitive Service can offer and how to use the different APIs.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Extracting information through textual analysis


Using the Textual Analytics API, we are able to analyze text. We will cover language detection, key-phrase analysis, and sentiment analysis. In addition, a new feature is the ability to detect topics. This does, however, require a lot of sample text, and as such, we will not go into details on this.

For all our text analysis tasks, we will be using a new View. Add a new View into the View folder, called TextAnalysisView.xaml. This should contain a TextBox element for the input query. It should also have a TextBox element for the result. We will need three Button elements, one for each detection analysis we will perform.

We will also need a new ViewModel, so add TextAnalysisViewModel.cs to the ViewModel folder. In this we need two string properties, one for each TextBox. Also add three ICommand properties, one for each of our buttons.

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