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IBM Watson Cognitive Solutions
IBM Watson Cognitive Solutions
IBM Watson Cognitive Solutions
Cognitive Solutions
Last Updated: July 7, 2017
Agenda
• IBM Watson
• IBM Watson Developer Cloud
• Cognitive Services
Unstructured Data
• Data sources
• Human-generated documents
• Social media communications
• Multimedia accounts
• Internet of Things
• And more!
Data generation & consumption
Cognitive Systems
Cognitive Systems
Cognitive systems They can reason, With each data With abilities to see,
understand imagery, grasp underlying point, interaction and talk and hear,
language and other concepts, form outcome, they cognitive systems
unstructured data hypotheses, and infer develop and sharpen interact with humans
like humans do and extract ideas expertise, so they in a natural way
never stop learning
IBM Watson core offerings
• Cognitive APIs
• Watson Developer Cloud
– Conversation
– Discovery
– And more!
Agenda
• IBM Watson
• IBM Watson Developer Cloud
• Cognitive Services
Watson Developer Cloud
• Provides developers easy access to cognitive building blocks
Create innovative solutions by identifying new combinations of cognitive services for your industry!
Example solution architecture
• Get a jumpstart building your cognitive app with code examples that
combine multiple services for common use cases
• Stack Overflow
• Largest online community for developers to learn and share programming knowledge
• developerWorks Answers
• Questions relating to cognitive computing with IBM Watson
• Watson Webinars
• Get insights on building with Watson APIs to create cognitive business apps
Agenda
• IBM Watson
• IBM Watson Developer Cloud
• Cognitive Services
Language Services
• What is it?
• Combines several cognitive techniques to help you build a bot
• Train the bot by defining intents and entities
• Craft dialog trees to simulate conversation
• What is it?
• Analyze text to extract meta-data from content such as concepts,
entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, relations, and more
• Identify industry specific entities using custom annotation models
• What is it?
• Uses linguistic analysis to detect three types of tones in written text
– Emotions, social tendencies, writing style
• Helps you understand conversations and communications
• What is it?
• Can be used anywhere there is a need to bridge the gap between
the spoken word and it’s written form
• Uses machine intelligence to combine grammar and language
structure with audio signal composition to generate transcriptions
• Common use cases "results": [ {
"word_alternatives": [ {
• Interactions in mobile experiences "start_time": 0.8,
"alternatives": [ {
• Transcribing media files "confidence": 1,
• Voice control of embedded systems } ],
"word": "my"
"end_time": 0.96
},
…..
Vision Services
• What is it?
• Understands the content of images, has already learned over 20,000
visual concepts including faces, age, and gender
• You can train the service to recognize and classify custom concepts
• What is it?
• Extract value from unstructured data: convert, normalize, enrich
• Utilize pre-enriched datasets like the Discovery News collection
• Use simplified query language to explore data