
Overview
This set of innovative APIs and SDKs provides researchers and developers with an early look at emerging cognitive capabilities. Early adopters who do not need market-ready technology can discover, try and provide feedback on new cognitive research technologies before they are generally available.

Project Academic Knowledge
KNOWLEDGE
Tap into the wealth of academic content in the Microsoft Academic Graph.

Project Knowledge Exploration
KNOWLEDGE
Enable interactive search experiences over structured data via natural language inputs.

Project Conversation Learner
LANGUAGE
Teach new behaviors to task-oriented conversational interfaces through example interactions.

Project Personality Chat
LANGUAGE
Enhance your bot’s conversational capabilities, by handling small talk, in line with a distinct chosen personality.

Project Answer Search
SEARCH
Enhance the user experience of your sites and applications by instantly answering search queries with relevant facts and results from across the web.

Project Event Tracking
SEARCH
Find events associated with Wikipedia entities. Begin with a Wikipedia entity, and receive a list of related events organized by time.

Project URL Preview
SEARCH
Preview URLs to show users where they’re going and help flag adult content.

Project Gesture
VISION
Incorporate gesture-based controls into your apps. Quickly define and implement customized hand gestures, creating a more natural user experience.
Graduated
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Project Anomaly Finder
KNOWLEDGE
The Anomaly Finder API helps you to monitor data over time and detect anomalies with machine learning that adapts to your unique data by automatically applying a statistical model.

Project Custom Decision
KNOWLEDGE
A cloud-based, contextual decision-making API that sharpens with experience.

Project Local Insights
SEARCH
Score the attractiveness of a location, based on how many of a particular amenity are within a specific distance.

Project Ink Analysis
VISION
Cloud APIs to understand digital ink content created by users through document layout analysis and handwriting and shape recognition.
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