Bing Spell Check

The Bing Spell Check API allows you to add advanced spell checking to your application.

This API will be covered in Chapter 6, Understanding Text.

Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)

LUIS is an API that can help your application understand commands from your users. Using this API, you can create language models that understand intents. By using models from Bing and Cortana, you can make these models recognize common requests and entities (such as places, times, and numbers). You can add conversational intelligence to your applications.

LUIS will be covered in Chapter 4, Let Applications Understand Commands.

Text analytics

The text analytics API will help you in extracting information from text. You can use it to find the sentiment of a text (whether the text is positive or negative), and will also be able to detect the language, topic, key phrases, and entities that are used throughout the will also cover the text analysis API in Chapter 6, Understanding Text.

Translator Text API

By adding the translator text API, you can get textual translations for over 60 languages. It can detect languages automatically, and you can customize the API to your needs. In addition, you can improve translations by creating user groups, utilizing the power of crowdsourcing.

The translator text API will not be covered in this book.