Until now, the AlchemyLanguage suite of NLP APIs has been available as an entirely pre-trained, out-of-the-box solution. Learn how Watson Knowledge Studio will allow you to customize these services for the first time ever. Register to view the on-demand version of the webinar here: http://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1202815/59204B7155E9CC3DD921D896E159B8FD

1. Customizable APIs – Episode 2:
Enhanced NLP APIs with Watson Knowledge
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Our Experts:
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Tanmay Sinha, Offering Management,
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Josh Elliot, Software Engineer,
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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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5. 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.

6. Challenges with domain adaptation
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Expensive
Process of training machines to extract
information from new domain is
fragmented making it expensive
Isolated
Isolated development environments make
it challenging for domain experts &
developers to work together
Complex
Ambiguous nature of natural language
makes it complex for people to program
machines
Collaborative
SMEs work together to infuse domain
knowledge in cognitive applications
Intuitive
Use a guided experience to teach
Watson nuances of natural language
without writing a single line of code
Cost Effective
Create 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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10. 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/C139511C08FED
Link is also located in the Resources widget in the webinar console.
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Are you ready to get started?
• AlchemyLanguage:
- http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/alc
hemy-language.html
• Watson Knowledge Studio:
- https://ibm.biz/watsonknowledge
Join our Slack channel for more discussion
immediately following the webinar
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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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Thank you for attending!
Contact us
Phone: 1-877-253-0308
Email: wdc-dev@bg.vnet.ibm.com
Online: Watson Developer Cloud