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Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search de Nishith Pathak

Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search

Autor Nishith Pathak
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 aug 2017

Observăm o schimbare de paradigmă în dezvoltarea software modernă: inteligența artificială nu mai este un domeniu rezervat exclusiv cercetătorilor, ci devine o componentă accesibilă programatorilor .NET prin intermediul Microsoft Cognitive Services. Cartea se concentrează pe utilizarea practică a API-urilor pentru procesarea limbajului natural, recunoaștere vocală și funcții de căutare avansată, eliminând bariera complexității matematice din spatele algoritmilor de învățare automată.

Structura volumului este una progresivă, pornind de la conceptele de bază ale AI în primul capitol și avansând rapid către implementări concrete în Visual Studio. Remarcăm o atenție deosebită acordată LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service) și modului în care acesta poate fi consumat pentru a crea interfețe de utilizator inteligente. De asemenea, lucrarea explorează integrarea serviciilor de căutare Bing pentru a rafina intențiile utilizatorilor și implementarea sistemelor de recomandare, esențiale în peisajul comercial actual.

În contextul operei autorului, Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search reprezintă o evoluție naturală de la arhitecturile orientate spre servicii prezentate în Pro WCF 4, către ecosistemul modern de servicii cognitive. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe comunicarea între sisteme, aici Nishith Pathak se concentrează pe inteligența intrinsecă a acestor interacțiuni. În timp ce Beginning Azure Cognitive Services de Alicia Moniz oferă un cadru teoretic și o introducere generală în suita Azure, această carte oferă instrumentele practice și codul sursă specific (C#) necesar pentru a construi aplicații funcționale imediat, fiind mult mai ancorată în fluxul de lucru zilnic al unui dezvoltator .NET.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781484229484
ISBN-10: 1484229487
Pagini: 292
Ilustrații: XXIV, 264 p. 174 illus., 15 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1st edition
Editura: Apress
Locul publicării:Berkeley, CA, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte dezvoltatorilor .NET care doresc să integreze rapid funcționalități de inteligență artificială fără a parcurge teoria densă a algoritmilor. Veți câștiga abilitatea practică de a implementa recunoaștere vocală, boți conversaționali și sisteme de recomandare folosind C# și Microsoft Cognitive Services, transformând aplicațiile standard în soluții inteligente capabile să înțeleagă intențiile utilizatorilor.

Despre autor

Nishith Pathak este Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) și un expert recunoscut în platforma .NET, pe care o utilizează încă de la primele versiuni beta. Cu o vastă experiență în livrarea de soluții enterprise pentru companii din topul Fortune 100, Pathak s-a specializat în tehnologii emergente, fiind autorul unor lucrări de referință precum IoT, AI, and Blockchain for .NET și Pro WCF. Expertiza sa acoperă atât arhitectura sistemelor complexe, cât și instruirea tehnică, fiind un colaborator activ al publicațiilor de profil și un vorbitor frecvent la conferințe internaționale de tehnologie.

Descriere scurtă

Get introduced to the world of artificial intelligence with this accessible and practical guide. Build applications that make intelligent use of language and user interaction to better compete in today’s marketplace. Discover how your application can deeply understand and interpret content on the web or a user’s machine, intelligently react to direct user interaction through speech or text, or make smart recommendations on products or services that are tailored to each individual user.
With Microsoft Cognitive Services, you can do all this and more utilizing a set of easy-to-use APIs that can be consumed on the desktop, web, or mobile devices. Developers normally think of AI implementation as a tough task involving writing complex algorithms. This book aims to remove the anxiety by creating a cognitive application with a few lines of code. There is a wide range of Cognitive Services APIs available. This book focuses on some of the most useful and powerful ways that your application can make intelligent use of language.
Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search will show you how you can start building amazing capabilities into your applications today.
What You'll Learn
  • Understand the underpinnings of artificial intelligence through practical examples and scenarios
  • Get started building an AI-based application in Visual Studio
  • Build a text-based conversational interface for direct user interaction
  • Use the Cognitive Services Speech API to recognize and interpret speech
  • Look at different models of language, including natural language processing, and how to apply them in your Visual Studio application
  • Reuse Bing search capabilities to better understand a user’s intention
  • Work with recommendation engines and integrate them into your apps
Who This Book Is For

Developers working on a range of platforms, from .NET and Windows to mobile devices. Examples are given in C#. No prior experience with AI techniques or theory is required.

Cuprins

1. Getting Started with AI Basics.- 2. Creating an AI-Based Application in Visual Studio.- 3. Building a Conversational User Interface with Microsoft Technologies.- 4. Using Natural Language Understanding.- 5. Exploring a Cognitive Language Model.-  6. Consuming and Applying LUIS.-  7. Interacting with Speech API.- 8. Enhancing Search Capabilities with AI.- 9. Working with Recommendations.- 10. Future of AI.

Notă biografică

Nishith Pathak is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), architect, speaker, AI thinker, innovator, and strategist. He is a prolific writer and contributing author and has written many books, articles, reviews, and columns for multiple electronic and print publications. Having more than 20 years of experience in IT, Nishith's expertise lies in innovation, research, architecting, designing, and developing applications for Fortune 100 companies using next-generation tools and technologies.  As an early adopter of Microsoft technology, he has kept pace in the certification challenges and succeeded in getting several of his certifications in beta stage.
Nishith is a gold member and sits on the advisory board of various national and international computer science societies and organizations. He has been awarded the elite Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) a couple of times for his exemplary work and his expertise in Microsoft technologies. He is a member of various advisory groups for Microsoft. Nishith is currently working as Vice President and R&D lead for Accenture Technology Labs. He is focused on key research areas, specifically AI, ML, cognitive, bot, blockchain cloud computing, and helping companies architect solutions based on these technologies. Nishith was born, raised, and educated in a town called Kotdwara in Uttarakhand, India.  Beyond that, as time permits, he spends time with his friends and amuses them with his interests in palmistry and astrology.

Anurag Bhandari is a contributing author to this book and a researcher, programmer, and open source evangelist. His favorite research areas include NLP, IoT, and machine learning. He specializes in developing web as well as mobile apps and solutions. He has extensive experience working with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and NGOs in the capacity of research and software delivery. Anurag hails from Jalandhar, Punjab, where he also completed his degree in computer science from National Institute of Technology. Since his undergraduate days, he has been affiliated with or led several open source projects, such as Granular Linux and OpenMandriva. He is a proud polyglot of programming (C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python) and natural (English, Hindi, Punjabi, French) languages. Being a technology enthusiast, Anurag keeps meddling with trending technologies and trying out new frameworks and platforms. In his spare time, he reads books, follows sports, drools over gadgets, watches TV shows, plays games, and collects stamps.

 

Caracteristici

Accessible and practical guide to building AI-powered applications using the easy-to-use Cognitive Services APIs from Microsoft Teaches how to draw from a range of speech, language, and search APIs to build applications that better understand the web, content, and user intent Contains examples in C# that can easily be applied across a wide range of platforms, including web, desktop, and mobile