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Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson

You're reading from   Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson Build smart applications using artificial intelligence as a service

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478298
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanmay Bakshi Tanmay Bakshi
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Robert High Robert High
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Background, Transition, and the Future of Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Can Machines Converse Like Humans? 3. Computer Vision 4. This Is How Computers Speak 5. Expecting Empathy from Dumb Computers 6. Language - How Watson Deals with NL 7. Structuring Unstructured Content Through Watson 8. Putting It All Together with Watson 9. Future - Cognitive Computing and You 10. Another Book You May Enjoy

Recapping Watson Services


Watson Services are all available through APIs that you can call from your application. Each of them has been designed to solve specific aspects of recognizing the human experience – whether that's the way we converse, what we see and hear, what we feel, or how we communicate. Watson Services are implemented to perform well out of the box for many general use cases, but all of them can be customized through training techniques to improve their performance in specific situations.

Watson Assistant is useful for creating a conversational flow between users and the computer. This service can be used to create virtual assistants – something that converses with the user to get to the heart of the problem that the user wants to solve. It can classify the user's utterance, extract any entities in that expression, and use that to decide how to respond to the user – perhaps asking further questions to clarify their needs. Remember that a really good conversational system does...

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