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A Topic to discuss everything related to Document Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI), e.g. Google’s Document Understanding AI, Microsoft’s Cognitive Search, etc.

1.  Have any of you used either Google’s Document Understanding AI or Microsoft’s Cognitive Search capabilities yet?
   1. If so, then:
      1. Please Share your experiences, Lessons Learned, Best Practices, etc. from your experience using either Google’s Document Understanding AI or Microsoft’s Cognitive Search capabilities, herein, for all of our mutual benefit, ok?
         1. What are the Pro’s or Con’s for using Google’s Document Understanding AI vs. Microsoft’s Cognitive Search capabilities?
         2. For what Use Cases have you implemented using either Google’s Document Understanding AI or Microsoft’s Cognitive Search?
            1. What were the Costs? Benefits? and/or ROI? that you realized from implementing each of these Use Cases using Google’s Document Understanding AI or Microsoft’s Cognitive Search?
2. For what all Use Cases do you believe may benefit from (which all?) of the capabilities from Google’s Document Understanding AI or Microsoft’s Cognitive Search? and Why?

References:

1. Google’s Document Understanding AI:
   1. => https://cloud.google.com/solutions/document-understanding/
   2. Bringing Intelligence to Enterprise Content Management, Google Releases Document Understanding AI => https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/04/Google-Document-Understanding/
2. Microsoft’s Cognitive Search:
   1. Announcing Cognitive Search: Azure Search + cognitive capabilities => https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-cognitive-search-azure-search-cognitive-capabilities/
   2. What is “cognitive search” in Azure Search? => https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/cognitive-search-concept-intro
   3. JFK Files in AI.lab.
      1. => http://ailab.microsoft.com/experiments/7d6b0652-51dc-440d-a12a-481f28525143
      2. live version of that app => https://jfk-demo.azurewebsites.net/
      3. and posted the code in GitHub => https://github.com/Microsoft/AzureSearch_JFK_Files

Related V.I.B.E.S. Projects:

1. Automatically Generate Alternate Utterances and Synonyms for Natural Language Processing => http://blog.thevcf.com/forums/topic/automatically-generate-alternate-utterances-and-synonyms-for-natural-language-processing/
2. Conversational Interface CASE Tool => http://blog.thevcf.com/forums/topic/conversational-interface-case-tool/

Let’s discuss all of this herein for everyone’s mutual benefit, ok?

I hope this all helps and Have a Great Day! 🙂

– Michael S. DeVries