Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 3 Visual Recognition
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 3 Visual Recognition

Author: Dr. Azeddine Elhassouny

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-05-22

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0738442577

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® Watson cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific Watson services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 3, introduces the IBM Watson® Visual Recognition service. The Watson Visual Recognition service uses deep learning algorithms to analyze images for scenes, objects, faces, and other content. This book introduces concepts that you need to understand in order to use this Watson service and provides simple code examples to illustrate the use of the APIs. This book includes examples of applications that demonstrate how to use the Watson Visual Recognition service in practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 1 Getting Started
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 1 Getting Started

Author: Dr. Alfio Gliozzo

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 073844264X

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 1, introduces cognitive computing, its motivating factors, history, and basic concepts. This volume describes the industry landscape for cognitive computing and introduces Watson, the cognitive computing offering from IBM. It also describes the nature of the question-answering (QA) challenge that is represented by the Jeopardy! quiz game and it provides a high-level overview of the QA system architecture (DeepQA), developed for Watson to play the game. This volume charts the evolution of the Watson Developer Cloud, from the initial DeepQA implementation. This book also introduces the concept of domain adaptation and the processes that must be followed to adapt the various Watson services to specific domains.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 5 Language Translator
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 5 Language Translator

Author: Valerie Lampkin

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0738442585

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 5, describes how the Watson Language Translator service can be used to translate text from one language to another. It introduces the concepts that you need in order to understand how to use the Watson Language Translator service. It provides an example of an application that integrates the Watson Language Translator service. You can develop and deploy the sample application by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application. This book also covers a mechanism provided by the Watson Language Translator service to train the service to perform domain-specific translations by customizing the existing linguistic models.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation

Author: Ahmed Azraq

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-05-24

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0738442569

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 2, describes how the Watson Conversation service can be used to create chatbots and user agents that understand natural-language input and communicate with your users simulating a real human conversation. It introduces the concepts that you need to understand in order to use the Watson Conversation service. It provides examples of applications that integrate the Watson Conversation service with other IBM Bluemix® services, such as the IBM IoT Platform, Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and Weather Company® Data, to implement practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech

Author: Felipe Santiago

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-05-26

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 0738442607

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 6, introduces the Watson Text to Speech (converts written text into natural sounding audio in various languages and voices) and Watson Speech to Text (converts audio voice into written text) services. This book introduces concepts that you need to understand to use these Watson services and provides simple code examples to illustrate the use of the APIs. This book includes examples of applications that demonstrate how to use the Watson Text to Speech and Speech to Text services in practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding

Author: Sebastian Vergara

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-06-02

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 0738442623

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 7, introduces the Watson Natural Language Understanding service. This service is a collection of text analysis functions that derive semantic information from your content. This book includes a basic description of several of the Natural Language Understanding service features and provides sample code snippets to demonstrate their use. This book includes an example of an application that integrates the Watson Natural Language Understanding service with the Watson Personality Insights and Insights for Twitter services to create a simple application to analyze Tweets from a Twitter handle. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier
Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier

Author: Marcelo Mota Manhaes

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0738442593

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The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM® WatsonTM cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific IBM Watson® services with their associated architectures and simple code examples. Each volume describes how you can use and implement these services in your applications through practical use cases. The series includes the following volumes: Volume 1 Getting Started, SG24-8387 Volume 2 Conversation, SG24-8394 Volume 3 Visual Recognition, SG24-8393 Volume 4 Natural Language Classifier, SG24-8391 Volume 5 Language Translator, SG24-8392 Volume 6 Speech to Text and Text to Speech, SG24-8388 Volume 7 Natural Language Understanding, SG24-8398 Whether you are a beginner or an experienced developer, this collection provides the information you need to start your research on Watson services. If your goal is to become more familiar with Watson in relation to your current environment, or if you are evaluating cognitive computing, this collection can serve as a powerful learning tool. This IBM Redbooks® publication, Volume 4, introduces the Watson Natural Language Classifier service. This service applies cognitive computing techniques to return best matching predefined classes for short text inputs such as a sentence or phrase. The book describes concepts that you need to understand to create, use and train the classifier. This book describes how to prepare training data, and create and train the classifier to connect the classes to example texts so the service can apply the classes to new inputs. It provides examples of applications that demonstrate how to use the Watson Natural Language Classifier service in practical use cases. You can develop and deploy the sample applications by following along in a step-by-step approach and using provided code snippets. Alternatively, you can download an existing Git project to more quickly deploy the application.

Enhancing the IBM Power Systems Platform with IBM Watson Services
Enhancing the IBM Power Systems Platform with IBM Watson Services

Author: Scott Vetter

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2018-04-12

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0738443026

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an introduction to the IBM POWER® processor architecture. It describes the IBM POWER processor and IBM Power SystemsTM servers, highlighting the advantages and benefits of IBM Power Systems servers, IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux on Power. This publication showcases typical business scenarios that are powered by Power Systems servers. It provides an introduction to the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that IBM Watson® services enable, and how these AI capabilities can be augmented in existing applications by using an agile approach to embed intelligence into every operational process. For each use case, the business benefits of adding Watson services are detailed. This publication gives an overview about each Watson service, and how each one is commonly used in real business scenarios. It gives an introduction to the Watson API explorer, which you can use to try the application programming interfaces (APIs) and their capabilities. The Watson services are positioned against the machine learning capabilities of IBM PowerAI. In this publication, you have a guide about how to set up a development environment on Power Systems servers, a sample code implementation of one of the business cases, and a description of preferred practices to move any application that you develop into production. This publication is intended for technical professionals who are interested in learning about or implementing IBM Watson services on AIX, IBM i, and Linux.

How to Use IBM Cloud Object Storage When Building and Operating Cloud Native Applications
How to Use IBM Cloud Object Storage When Building and Operating Cloud Native Applications

Author: Giri Badanahatti

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0738457043

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This IBM® RedpaperTM publication presents a series of tutorials for cloud native developers just getting started with IBM CloudTM and IBM Cloud Object Storage. Within the context of a car insurance application, this paper presents an introductory series of linked modules that allow developers unfamiliar with either IBM Cloud or cloud native development to get started with application development using IBM starter kits. This allows you to become familiar with the types of services available on IBM Cloud, and to develop a sense of which patterns and choices are appropriate for different use cases. Some of the technologies and products covered in this book are Cloudant®, WatsonTM Analytics, machine learning, elastic search, Kubernetes, containers, pre-signed URLs, Aspera®, and SQL Query. In addition to the technical integration steps, it also presents a business case for integrating these technologies and products with IBM Cloud Object Storage. The target audience for this paper is cloud native developers and cloud object storage specialists.

Installation and Configuration of IBM Watson Analytics and StoredIQ
Installation and Configuration of IBM Watson Analytics and StoredIQ

Author: Alan Bluck

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9390684498

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Guidance for successful installation of a wide range of IBM software products Ê KEY FEATURESÊÊ _ Complete installation guide of IBM software systems, Redhat Enterprise, IBM Cloud, and Docker. _ Expert-led demonstration on complete configuration and implementation of IBM software solutions. _ Includes best practices and efficient techniques adopted by banks, financial services, and insurance companies. DESCRIPTIONÊ This book provides instructions for installation, configuration and troubleshooting sections to improve the IT support productivity and fast resolution of issues that arise. It covers readers' references that are available online and also step-by-step procedures required for a successful installation of a broad range ofÊ IBM Data Analytics products.Ê This book provides a holistic in-depth knowledge for students, software architects, installation specialists, and developers of Data Analysis software and a handbook for data analysts who want a single source of information on IBM Data Analysis Software products. This book provides a single resource that covers the latest available IBM Data Analysis software on the most recent RedHat Linux and IBM Cloud platforms. This book includes comprehensive technical guidance, enabling IT professionals to gain an in-depth knowledge of the installation of a broad range of IBM Software products across different operating systems.Ê WHAT YOU WILL LEARN _ Step-by-step installation and configuration of IBM Watson Analytics. _ Managing RedHat Enterprise Systems and IBM Cloud Platforms. _ Installing, configuring, and managing IBM StoredIQ. _ Best practices to administer and maintain IBM software packages. _ Upgrading VMware stations and installing Docker. WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊÊ This book is a go-to guide for IT professionals who are primarilyÊ Solution Architects, Implementation Experts, or Technology Consultants of IBM Software suites. This will also be a useful guide for IT managers who are looking to adopt and enable their enterprise with IBM products. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with IBM Resources for Analytics 2. IBM Component Software Compatibility Matrix 3. IBM Download Procedures 4. On-Premise Server Configurations and Prerequisites 5. IBM Fix Packs 6. IBM Cloud PAK Systems 7. RedHat OpenShift 4.x Installations 8. IBM Cloud Private System 9. Base VMWare System Platform 10. IBM Cloud Private Cluster on CentOS 8.0 11. UIMA Pipeline and Java Code Extensions 12. IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components V12 13. IBM Watson Explorer oneWEX 12.0.3 14. IBM StoredIQ for Legal APPENDIX References and End of Life Support