With the Tone Analyzer API, as the name implies, you can analyze the tone of a passage of text. These are the six possible tones as shown in the following table:
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Tone |
Example |
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Anger |
Seriously? I just bought my phone yesterday and it's already bricked! |
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Fear |
I'm worried my phone is going to overheat! |
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Joy |
#ThisBrand makes the best chocolate bars! |
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Sadness |
It's too bad that Ken and Brad lost to a computer on Jeopardy! |
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Analytical |
Your computational thinking skills are excellent; however, you need to work on your programming. |
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Tentative |
I'm beginning to wonder if #ThisPhone is the best in the market anymore. |
When you pass Watson some text, it generates a score for each of these tones on a scale of 0 to 1. It also lets you know which parts of the text activated those...
