Cognitive Applications

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.

PDFs are currently in DRAFT - official release in JUNE.  Volume 7 - NLU doesn't appear to be online, yet, so keep checking back.....

CHECK IT OUT HERE

It's not often that I give links to PDF training guides, but these PDFs are actually well done with some indepth examples that are done in "my style", ie. meaningful and lots of step-by-step screenshots!  If you want to have some un-official training, let's say on the "Conversation" service, get stuck into the PDF and walk through the samples, you'll be impressed just how quick you can get going......