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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Use Cognitive Services APIs to add AI capabilities to your applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800616
Length 312 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speaking with Your Application 6. Understanding Text 7. Building Recommendation Systems for Businesses 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces A. LUIS Entities B. License Information Index

Interpreting natural language queries


The query expressions that the API uses to evaluate a query are not in a natural language format. To ensure that users can make queries in a natural way, we need to interpret their input.

When calling the Interpret feature of the API, it accepts a query string. This will be returned and formatted to reflect the user intent using academic grammar. In addition, this feature can be called as the user is writing, to provide an interactive experience.

The request is a GET request, as shown in the following code:

    private async void Interpret(object obj)
    {
        var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

        queryString["query"] = InputQuery;
        queryString["complete"] = "1";
        //queryString["count"] = "10";
        //queryString["offset"] = "0";
        //queryString["timeout"] = "1000";
        //queryString["model"] = "latest";

We start the call by creating a queryString variable. The parameters we can input are specified...

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