Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 2 Conversation written by Ahmed Azraq and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 2, describes how the Watson Conversation service can be used to create chatbots and user agents that understand natural-language input and communicate with your users simulating a real human conversation. It introduces the concepts that you need to understand in order to use the Watson Conversation service. It provides examples of applications that integrate the Watson Conversation service with other IBM Bluemix® services, such as the IBM IoT Platform, Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and Weather Company® Data, to implement practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 1 Getting Started written by Dr. Alfio Gliozzo and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 1, introduces cognitive computing, its motivating factors, history, and basic concepts. This volume describes the industry landscape for cognitive computing and introduces Watson, the cognitive computing offering from IBM. It also describes the nature of the question-answering (QA) challenge that is represented by the Jeopardy! quiz game and it provides a high-level overview of the QA system architecture (DeepQA), developed for Watson to play the game. This volume charts the evolution of the Watson Developer Cloud, from the initial DeepQA implementation. This book also introduces the concept of domain adaptation and the processes that must be followed to adapt the various Watson services to specific domains.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding written by Sebastian Vergara and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 7, introduces the Watson Natural Language Understanding service. This service is a collection of text analysis functions that derive semantic information from your content. This book includes a basic description of several of the Natural Language Understanding service features and provides sample code snippets to demonstrate their use. This book includes an example of an application that integrates the Watson Natural Language Understanding service with the Watson Personality Insights and Insights for Twitter services to create a simple application to analyze Tweets from a Twitter handle. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech written by Felipe Santiago and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 6, introduces the Watson Text to Speech (converts written text into natural sounding audio in various languages and voices) and Watson Speech to Text (converts audio voice into written text) services. This book introduces concepts that you need to understand to use these Watson services and provides simple code examples to illustrate the use of the APIs. This book includes examples of applications that demonstrate how to use the Watson Text to Speech and Speech to Text services in practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services written by Alfio Gliozzo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: , SG24-8387 Volume 1 Getting Started , SG24-8394 Volume 2 Conversation , SG24-8393 Volume 3 Visual Recognition , SG24-8391 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier , SG24-8392 Volume 5 Language Translator , SG24-8388 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech , SG24-8398 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 1, introduces cognitive computing, its motivating factors, history, and basic concepts. This volume describes the industry landscape for cognitive computing and introduces Watson, the cognitive computing offering from IBM. It also describes the nature of the question-answering (QA) challenge that is represented by the Jeopardy! quiz game and it provides a high-level overview of the QA system architecture (DeepQA), developed for Watson to play the game. This volume charts the evolution of the Watson Developer Cloud, from the initial DeepQA implementation. This book also introduces the concept of domain adaptation and the processes that must be followed to adapt the various Watson services to specific domains.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 5 Language Translator written by Valerie Lampkin and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 5, describes how the Watson Language Translator service can be used to translate text from one language to another. It introduces the concepts that you need in order to understand how to use the Watson Language Translator service. It provides an example of an application that integrates the Watson Language Translator service. You can develop and deploy the sample application by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application. This book also covers a mechanism provided by the Watson Language Translator service to train the service to perform domain-specific translations by customizing the existing linguistic models.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 3 Visual Recognition written by Dr. Azeddine Elhassouny and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific Watson services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 3, introduces the IBM Watson® Visual Recognition service. The Watson Visual Recognition service uses deep learning algorithms to analyze images for scenes, objects, faces, and other content. This book introduces concepts that you need to understand in order to use this Watson service and provides simple code examples to illustrate the use of the APIs. This book includes examples of applications that demonstrate how to use the Watson Visual Recognition service in practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Download or read book Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier written by Marcelo Mota Manhaes and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 4, introduces the Watson Natural Language Classifier service. This service applies cognitive computing techniques to return best matching predefined classes for short text inputs such as a sentence or phrase. The book describes concepts that you need to understand to create, use and train the classifier. This book describes how to prepare training data, and create and train the classifier to connect the classes to example texts so the service can apply the classes to new inputs. It provides examples of applications that demonstrate how to use the Watson Natural Language Classifier service in practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Download or read book Enhancing the IBM Power Systems Platform with IBM Watson Services written by Scott Vetter and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an introduction to the IBM POWER® processor architecture. It describes the IBM POWER processor and IBM Power SystemsTM servers, highlighting the advantages and benefits of IBM Power Systems servers, IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux on Power. This publication showcases typical business scenarios that are powered by Power Systems servers. It provides an introduction to the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that IBM Watson® services enable, and how these AI capabilities can be augmented in existing applications by using an agile approach to embed intelligence into every operational process. For each use case, the business benefits of adding Watson services are detailed. This publication gives an overview about each Watson service, and how each one is commonly used in real business scenarios. It gives an introduction to the Watson API explorer, which you can use to try the application programming interfaces (APIs) and their capabilities. The Watson services are positioned against the machine learning capabilities of IBM PowerAI. In this publication, you have a guide about how to set up a development environment on Power Systems servers, a sample code implementation of one of the business cases, and a description of preferred practices to move any application that you develop into production. This publication is intended for technical professionals who are interested in learning about or implementing IBM Watson services on AIX, IBM i, and Linux.

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Download or read book Developing Node js Applications on IBM Cloud written by Ahmed Azraq and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how to create various applications based on Node.js, and deploy and run them on IBM Cloud. This book includes the following exercises: Develop a Hello World application in Node.js on IBM Cloud. Use asynchronous callback to call an external service. Create an Express application. Build a rich front-end application by using React and ES6. During these exercises, you will perform these tasks: Create an IBM SDK for Node.js application. Write your first Node.js application. Deploy an IBM SDK for Node.js application on an IBM Cloud account. Create a Node.js module and use it in your code. Understand asynchronous callbacks and know how to use it to call an external service. Understand IBM WatsonTM Language Translator service. Create a Hello World Express application. Create a simple HTML view for your application. Understand Express routing. Use third-party modules in Node.js. Understand IBM Watson® Natural Language Understanding service. Use a Git repository on IBM Cloud DevOps services. Understand Delivery Pipeline. Understand how to clone an IBM Cloud application. Use React to create interactive web pages. Understand the following concepts of ES6: Classes, arrow functions, and promises. This book is for beginner and experienced developers who want to start coding Node.js applications on IBM Cloud.

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Download or read book Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson written by Rob High and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand, design, and create cognitive applications using Watson’s suite of APIs. Key FeaturesDevelop your skills and work with IBM Watson APIs to build efficient and powerful cognitive appsLearn how to build smart apps to carry out different sets of activities using real-world use casesGet well versed with the best practices of IBM Watson and implement them in your daily workBook Description Cognitive computing is rapidly infusing every aspect of our lives riding on three important fields: data science, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI). It allows computing systems to learn and keep on improving as the amount of data in the system grows. This book introduces readers to a whole new paradigm of computing – a paradigm that is totally different from the conventional computing of the Information Age. You will learn the concepts of ML, deep learning (DL), neural networks, and AI through the set of APIs provided by IBM Watson. This book will help you build your own applications to understand, plan, and solve problems, and analyze them as per your needs. You will learn about various domains of cognitive computing, such as NLP, voice processing, computer vision, emotion analytics, and conversational systems, using different IBM Watson APIs. From this, the reader will learn what ML is, and what goes on in the background to make computers "do their magic," as well as where these concepts have been applied. Having achieved this, the readers will then be able to embark on their journey of learning, researching, and applying the concept in their respective fields. What you will learnGet well versed with the APIs provided by IBM Watson on IBM CloudLearn ML, AI, cognitive computing, and neural network principlesImplement smart applications in fields such as healthcare, entertainment, security, and moreUnderstand unstructured content using cognitive metadata with the help of Natural Language UnderstandingUse Watson’s APIs to create real-life applications to realize their capabilitiesDelve into various domains of cognitive computing, such as media analytics, embedded deep learning, computer vision, and moreWho this book is for This book is for beginners and novices; having some knowledge about artificial intelligence and deep learning is an advantage, but not a prerequisite to benefit from this book. We explain the concept of deep learning and artificial intelligence through the set of tools IBM Watson provides.

Download or read book Installation and Configuration of IBM Watson Analytics and StoredIQ written by Alan Bluck and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guidance for successful installation of a wide range of IBM software products Ê KEY FEATURESÊÊ _ Complete installation guide of IBM software systems, Redhat Enterprise, IBM Cloud, and Docker. _ Expert-led demonstration on complete configuration and implementation of IBM software solutions. _ Includes best practices and efficient techniques adopted by banks, financial services, and insurance companies. DESCRIPTIONÊ This book provides instructions for installation, configuration and troubleshooting sections to improve the IT support productivity and fast resolution of issues that arise. It covers readers' references that are available online and also step-by-step procedures required for a successful installation of a broad range ofÊ IBM Data Analytics products.Ê This book provides a holistic in-depth knowledge for students, software architects, installation specialists, and developers of Data Analysis software and a handbook for data analysts who want a single source of information on IBM Data Analysis Software products. This book provides a single resource that covers the latest available IBM Data Analysis software on the most recent RedHat Linux and IBM Cloud platforms. This book includes comprehensive technical guidance, enabling IT professionals to gain an in-depth knowledge of the installation of a broad range of IBM Software products across different operating systems.Ê WHAT YOU WILL LEARN _ Step-by-step installation and configuration of IBM Watson Analytics. _ Managing RedHat Enterprise Systems and IBM Cloud Platforms. _ Installing, configuring, and managing IBM StoredIQ. _ Best practices to administer and maintain IBM software packages. _ Upgrading VMware stations and installing Docker. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊÊ This book is a go-to guide for IT professionals who are primarilyÊ Solution Architects, Implementation Experts, or Technology Consultants of IBM Software suites. This will also be a useful guide for IT managers who are looking to adopt and enable their enterprise with IBM products. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with IBM Resources for Analytics 2. IBM Component Software Compatibility Matrix 3. IBM Download Procedures 4. On-Premise Server Configurations and Prerequisites 5. IBM Fix Packs 6. IBM Cloud PAK Systems 7. RedHat OpenShift 4.x Installations 8. IBM Cloud Private System 9. Base VMWare System Platform 10. IBM Cloud Private Cluster on CentOS 8.0 11. UIMA Pipeline and Java Code Extensions 12. IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components V12 13. IBM Watson Explorer oneWEX 12.0.3 14. IBM StoredIQ for Legal APPENDIX References and End of Life Support

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Download or read book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems OTM 2019 Workshops written by Christophe Debruyne and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N ), Fact Based Modeling ( FBM), Industry Case Studies Program ( ICSP ), International Workshop on Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society (Meta4eS) and, 1st International Workshop on Security via Information Analytics and Applications (SIAnA 2019) held as part of OTM 2018 in October 2019 in Rhodes, Greece. As the three main conferences and the associated workshops all share the distributed aspects of modern computing systems, they experience the application pull created by the Internet and by the so-called Semantic Web, in particular developments of Big Data, increased importance of security issues, and the globalization of mobile-based technologies.