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Cognitive Research Technologies

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. Explore these research projects:

Gesture

Vision

Incorporate gesture-based controls into your apps. Quickly define and implement customized hand gestures, creating a more natural user experience.

Knowledge Exploration

Knowledge

Enable interactive search experiences over structured data via natural language inputs.

Conversation Learner

Language

Teach new behaviors to task-oriented conversational interfaces through example interactions.

Personality Chat

Language

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

Graduated projects

Learn more about these innovative research projects that graduated into full-fledged Microsoft services.

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.

Custom Decision

Knowledge

A cloud-based, contextual decision-making API that sharpens with experience.

Local Insights

Search

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

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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