In this article, you will learn about Microsoft Cognitive Services - LUIS APIs.
Introduction In this article, we will learn how to get started with Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services – Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) APIs. Overview I have came across many complicated articles with respect to Cognitive Services, but as I've been working on this service for the last six months, it's really not at all complex to work upon. Hence, I thought to start with writing a simple, step by step article with respect to Cognitive Services. If you have landed over directly to this article, I would also recommend to read the following.
As defined, Cognitive Services provide the best suite for having interactive, automated model of application. It helps to build powerful intelligence into applications, to enable natural and contextual interactions. LUIS API, as described by Microsoft, is designed to provide you with an easy way to create models, which allows your applications to understand user commands. We will learn more about LUIS APIs in later articles. To start with, let's create Cognitive account to use LUIS API using Azure Portal. Here, let's assume that you have Azure Portal account. If not, create your free Azure account. Once done with account creation, click '+' => Category, Intelligence + analytics => Services, Cognitive Services APIs. Fill in below details.
Click on Legal Terms option. A blade with detailed terms will be displayed. Read it carefully and then click = > I Agree => Create. After successful creation, it will be notified with below message. Click on Resource groups => CodeCognitivewithKasam ( Resource group selected) => Overview. LUIS API Cognitive account created will be listed. Click on account name. Overview will list all details associated with Cognitive account. Endpoint is base URL of Restful LUIS APIs provided by Microsoft. We will look into it with deep details in coming articles. Click on Keys under Resource Management. This will list key details (Key 1 , Key 2 ), which we will be used in our application to leverage LUIS API Services. We can also regenerate these Keys by clicking Regenerate Key option available, as shown below. Click on Quick Start for having quick introduction of Cognitive services, LUIS, along with, API documentation to use Cognitive LUIS APIs Summary How easy it is to get started with Cognitive Services. So far, we saw how seamlessly we created Cognitive Services LUIS API account using Microsoft Azure Portal.
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