Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search: Building Smart Applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs

© Nishith Pathak 2017

Nishith Pathak, Artificial Intelligence for .NET: Speech, Language, and Search, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2949-1_4

4. Using Natural Language Understanding

Nishith Pathak¹ 

(1)Kotdwara, Dist. Pauri Garhwal, India

Natural language understanding or NLU: you have been hearing this term since Chapter 1. You have seen with examples what it’s about and what it can do. By now you know that this is the thing that lends an application a human-like ability to understand a user’s natural language sentences. In this chapter, you will learn about NLU in detail and understand concepts related to LUIS, the NLU component in Cognitive Services .

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Although you can think of a natural language as being the direct opposite of an artificial ...