{"id":19077,"date":"2020-03-11T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=19077"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:55:43","slug":"new-ai-and-machine-learning-services-in-azure-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/new-ai-and-machine-learning-services-in-azure-government\/","title":{"rendered":"New AI and Machine Learning services in Azure Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Government continues to invest in delivering new cloud capabilities to government customers at a rapid pace. Over the next few weeks, we\u2019ll continue highlighting a wide range of new services along with how-to resources to help you accelerate modernization initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>New Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning services available in Azure Government include Azure Cognitive Search, QnA Maker, and Azure Machine Learning.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about these services below, and reach out to us with any questions at <a href=\"mailto:azgovfeedback@microsoft.com\">azgovfeedback@microsoft.com<\/a>. For a complete list of services, view Azure <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/global-infrastructure\/services\/\">services by region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Azure Cognitive Search<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/search\/search-what-is-azure-search\">Azure Cognitive Search<\/a> (formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/search\/whats-new#new-service-name\">Azure Search<\/a>) is the only cloud search service with built-in AI capabilities that enrich all types of information to easily identify and explore relevant content at scale. Fully managed search as a service helps you reduce complexity and scale faster.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as Azure Search, it uses the same integrated Microsoft natural language stack that Bing and Office have used for more than a decade, and AI services across vision, language, and speech.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19080\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Azure-Cognitive-Search-blog-image-1.png\" alt=\"Image Azure Cognitive Search blog image 1\" width=\"743\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Azure-Cognitive-Search-blog-image-1.png 756w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Azure-Cognitive-Search-blog-image-1-300x69.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">A search-as-a-service cloud solution that gives developers APIs and tools for a rich search experience over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise apps.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Example scenarios for Cognitive Search<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Consolidate heterogeneous content types into a private, single, searchable index <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Apply cognitive skills during indexing to add structure or extract meaning from raw content, including image and application files<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Easily implement an experience similar to commercial web search engines<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Index unstructured text or extract text and information from image files<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Satisfy linguistic requirements using the custom and language analyzers of Azure Cognitive Search. If you have non-English content, Azure Cognitive Search supports both Lucene analyzers and Microsoft&#8217;s natural language processors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Cognitive Search resources<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/rest\/api\/searchservice\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Azure Cognitive Search documentation<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/search\/search-create-service-portal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Quickstart: Create an Azure Cognitive Search service in the portal<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/customers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/story\/724888-icertis-professional-services-azure\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">AI-infused search brings static contracts to life, unlocking business value<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">QnA Maker<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">An Azure Cognitive Service, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/QnAMaker\/\">QnA Maker<\/a> is a cloud-based API service that lets you create a conversational question-and-answer layer over your existing data. Use it to build a knowledge base by extracting questions and answers from semi-structured content, including FAQs, manuals, and documents. Automatically answer users\u2019 questions with the best answers from the QnAs in your knowledge base. Your knowledge base gets smarter, too, as it continually learns from user behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">When to use QnA Maker<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">When you have static information in your knowledge base of answers. This knowledge base is custom to your needs, which you&#8217;ve built with documents such as PDFs and URLs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">When you want to provide the same answer to a request, question, or command &#8211; when different users submit the same question, the same answer is returned.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">When you want to filter static information based on meta-information, add metadata tags to provide additional filtering options relevant to your client application&#8217;s users and the information. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">When you want to manage a bot conversation that includes static information &#8211; your knowledge base takes a user&#8217;s conversational text or command and answers it. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">QnA Maker Resources<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/QnAMaker\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">QnA Maker documentation, tutorials and quickstart guides<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=33gguc7r_hY&amp;list=PLLasX02E8BPA5IgCPjqWms5ne5h4briK7&amp;index=1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">QnA Maker in Azure Government<\/span> (video)<\/a><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/enabling-collaborative-bot-development-across-your-organization-for-any-user\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Enabling collaborative bot development across your organization for any user (blog)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Azure Machine Learning<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Use Azure Machine Learning (ML) to accelerate the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle. Empower developers and data scientists with a wide range of productive experiences for building, training, and deploying machine learning models faster. Accelerate time to market and foster team collaboration with industry-leading MLOps\u2014DevOps for machine learning. Innovate on a secure, trusted platform, designed for responsible AI. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Azure ML accelerates productivity for all skill levels, with code-first and drag-and-drop designer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/machine-learning\/automatedml\/\">automated machine learning<\/a>. In addition, robust <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/machine-learning\/mlops\/\">MLOps<\/a> capabilities integrate with existing DevOps processes and help manage the complete ML lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19081\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/MLOps-blog-Image-2.png\" alt=\"Image MLOps blog Image 2\" width=\"735\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/MLOps-blog-Image-2.png 1265w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/MLOps-blog-Image-2-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/MLOps-blog-Image-2-1024x649.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/MLOps-blog-Image-2-768x487.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">5 best practices to optimize your MLOps lifecycle using Azure Machine Learning.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Azure ML includes state-of-the-art fairness and model interpretability to help you build responsible AI solutions, with enhanced security and cost management for advanced governance and control. Best-in-class support for open-source frameworks and languages including MLflow, Kubeflow, ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, and R.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Azure Machine Learning service resources:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/machine-learning\/overview-what-is-azure-ml\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Azure Machine Learning documentation, tutorials and quickstart guides<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JnngcJfhP1I&amp;list=PLLasX02E8BPA5IgCPjqWms5ne5h4briK7&amp;index=43\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">How to use Machine Learning on Azure Government with HDInsight<\/span> (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/info.microsoft.com\/ai-newsletter.html\">Sign up<\/a> for the Microsoft Azure AI newsletter<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;\">Additional resources for AI and Machine Learning<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/resources\/extract-actionable-insights-from-all-your-content\/\">Extract Actionable Insights from All Your Content (whitepaper)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WPbeMiSc_WU&amp;list=PLLasX02E8BPA5IgCPjqWms5ne5h4briK7&amp;index=12\">Bot Service and LUIS on Azure Government (video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/creating-a-more-accessible-world-with-azure-ai\/\">Creating a more accessible world with Azure AI (blog)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/a-year-of-bringing-ai-to-the-edge\/\">A year of bringing AI to the edge (blog)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Government continues to invest in delivering new cloud capabilities to government customers at a rapid pace. 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