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Customizable APIs – Episode 2: Enhanced NLP APIs with Watson Knowledge Studio

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Our Experts:

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Tanmay Sinha, Offering Management, IBM Watson

Josh Elliot, Software Engineer, AlchemyLanguage

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Our Goals

• In this series, we want to focus on the Watson services that allow you to customize functionality to better fit your use case and industry

• Today, we'll be showing you how AlchemyLanguage can call custom models created with Watson Knowledge Studio

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Introducing IBM Watson Knowledge Studio

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Watson Knowledge Studio is:•Intuitive: Use a guided experience to teach Watson nuances of natural language without writing a single line of code•Collaborative: SMEs work together to infuse domain knowledge in cognitive applications•Cost effective: Create and deploy domain knowledge infused annotators faster than ever before using an integrated development environment

IBM Watson Knowledge Studio is a cloud-based application that enables developers and domain experts to collaborate on the creation of custom annotator components that can be used to identify mentions and relations in unstructured text.

Challenges with domain adaptation

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ExpensiveProcess of training machines to extract

information from new domain is fragmented making it expensive

IsolatedIsolated development environments make

it challenging for domain experts & developers to work together

ComplexAmbiguous nature of natural language

makes it complex for people to program machines

CollaborativeSMEs work together to infuse domain knowledge in cognitive applications

IntuitiveUse a guided experience to teach

Watson nuances of natural language without writing a single line of code

Cost EffectiveCreate and deploy domain knowledge

infused annotators faster than ever before using an integrated development

environment

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Make makes Watson Knowledge Studio unique?• Provides an end-to-end solution for training and deployment of custom machine learning text annotator components.

• Enables training a custom machine learning annotator without writing any code.

• Lowers the level of expertise needed to train machine learning models.

• Only commercial offering in the market to support supervised training approach needed for high precision

• Reduces the time needed to train custom machine learning models by at least a factor of two.

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Watson Knowledge Studio + AlchemyLanguage: Custom Real-time NLP on cloud!

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• Deploy models directly from WKS to AlchemyLanguage on Bluemix

• Fully-customizable machine learning based runtime for real-time NLP use cases

• Cloud-based pay-go model• Ideal for business partners looking to build custom text analytics solutions on cloud

• Lower cost of entry• Note: Requires Advanced package of AlchemyLanguage on Watson Developer Cloud (available June 2016)

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In Summary, Watson Knowledge Studio is …• Intuitive

• Keep track of performance statistics such as precision and recall for annotator components

• Import dictionaries and pre-annotated documents to accelerate the training process

• Collaborative• Work with other subject matter experts to teach Watson the linguistic nuances of an industry domain

• Leverage knowledge artifacts on IBM Analytics Exchange (Beta) to expedite the model training process

• Cost Effective• Iteratively improve performance over time of annotator components

• Ability to deploy text annotators directly to Watson Explorer and the Watson Developer Cloud

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Want to learn more?• Join Tanmay on September 15th for an in-depth look at the Watson Knowledge Studio & infusing knowledge into cognitive apps.

http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1243391/C139511C08FEDAF6BCD0DF7E1A8820A6

Link is also located in the Resources widget in the webinar

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Are you ready to get started?

• AlchemyLanguage:- http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/alchemy-language.html

• Watson Knowledge Studio:- https://ibm.biz/watsonknowledge

Join our Slack channel for more discussion immediately following the

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Q&A

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What’s next?• Look out for a follow up email with a copy of these

slides, a recording of the webinar, Q&A recap, and additional resources

• The series continues bi-weekly on Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 9am PT• Training Watson Conversation to Detect User Intent - Wednesday, August 24• New Tools for Easy Dialog Scripting - Wednesday, September 7• Application Starter Kits for Developers - Wednesday, September 21

Special sequel Watson Knowledge Studio session • Infuse Knowledge into Cognitive Apps Faster Than Ever Before –

Thursday, September 15 @ 1pm ET

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