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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Leverage Machine Learning APIs to build smart applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623025
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speaking with Your Application 6. Understanding Text 7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces 11. LUIS Entities and Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis 12. License Information

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The Bing Spell Check API leverages the power of machine learning and statistical machine translation to train and evolve a highly contextual algorithm for spell-checking. Doing so allows us to utilize this to perform spell-checking using context.

A typical spell-checker will follow dictionary-based rule sets. As you can imagine, this will need continuous updates and expansions.

Using the Bing Spell Check API, we can recognize and correct slang and informal language. It can recognize common naming errors and correct word-breaking issues. It can detect and correct words that sound the same, but differ in meaning and spelling (homophones). It can also detect and correct brands and popular expressions.

Create a new View in the View folder. Call the file SpellCheckView.xaml. Add a TextBox element for the input query. We will also need two TextBox elements...

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