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Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson
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Contributors
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Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Background Transition and the Future of Computing
Transitioning from conventional to cognitive computing
Limitations of conventional computing
Solving conventional computing's problems
Workings of machine learning
Machine learning and its uses
Cons of machine learning
Introduction to IBM Watson
Hardware and software requirements
Signing up for IBM Cloud
Summary
Can Machines Converse Like Humans?
Creating a conversational agent workspace
Creating an instance of Watson Assistant and a workspace
The sample application
Creating a set of conversational intents
Recognizing entities
Identifying entities through annotators
Building a dialog
Creating the dialog for a complex Intent using Frame Slots
Context variables
Programming your conversation application
Emerging features
Further reading
Computer Vision
Can machines visually perceive the world around them?
The past – classical computer vision
The present – deep learning for computer vision
Creating a basic image-recognition system
Creating an instance of Watson Visual Recognition and a classifier
Uploading data and training the classifier
Testing the classifier
Creating a Python application to classify with Watson
Handling the case where you don't have training data
Using the facial detection model
This Is How Computers Speak
A computer that talks
Playing sound through the speaker
Getting fancier with how to speak
Controlling pronunciation
Customizing speech synthesis
Using sounds-like customization
Streaming and timing
A fun application of the speech service
Talking to the computer
Getting voice from a microphone
Using the WebSockets interface to speech recognition
Telephones are not good microphones
More about base models
Dealing with speaker hesitations
Customizing the speech recognition service
Customizing Watson's language model
Customizing the acoustic model for Watson
Leveraging batch processing
Expecting Empathy from Dumb Computers
Introducing empathy
Understanding the complexities of sentiment
The functionality of the Tone Analyzer API
How you can use the Tone Analyzer API
Understanding personality through natural language
Using natural language to infer personality traits
Calling the Personality Insights API
Language - How Watson Deals with NL
Natural language translation – the past
Natural language – it's intrinsically unstructured
Natural language translation – the present
Translating between languages with Language Translator
Training custom NMT models with Watson
Categorizing text using Natural Language Classifier
Structuring Unstructured Content Through Watson
Using computers that recognize what you mean
Introducing the NLU service
Alternative sources of literature
Types of analyses
