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Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson

You're reading from   Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson Build smart applications using artificial intelligence as a service

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478298
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanmay Bakshi Tanmay Bakshi
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Robert High Robert High
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Background, Transition, and the Future of Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Can Machines Converse Like Humans? 3. Computer Vision 4. This Is How Computers Speak 5. Expecting Empathy from Dumb Computers 6. Language - How Watson Deals with NL 7. Structuring Unstructured Content Through Watson 8. Putting It All Together with Watson 9. Future - Cognitive Computing and You 10. Another Book You May Enjoy

The functionality of the Tone Analyzer API

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:

Tone

Example

Anger

Seriously? I just bought my phone yesterday and it's already bricked!

Fear

I'm worried my phone is going to overheat!

Joy

#ThisBrand makes the best chocolate bars!

Sadness

It's too bad that Ken and Brad lost to a computer on Jeopardy!

Analytical

Your computational thinking skills are excellent; however, you need to work on your programming.

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...

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