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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

Chapter 6. Understanding Text

The previous chapter covered the speech APIs. Throughout this chapter, we will look closer at more language APIs. We will learn how to use spellcheck features. We will then discover how to detect languages, key phrases, and sentiment in text. Finally, we will look at the translator text API to see how we can detect languages and translate text.

By the end of this chapter, we will have covered the following topics:

  • Checking spelling and recognizing slang and informal language, common names, homonyms, and brands

  • Detecting language, key phrases, and sentiment in text

  • Translating text on the fly