API Research

What is an API?

An application programming interface (API) is a particular set of rules ('code') and specifications that software programs can follow to communicate with each other. It serves as an interface between different software programs and facilitates their interaction, similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. (Source: Wikipedia)

APIs are consistent way of communicating between two systems with given set of rules. There are plenty of APIs out there for various usages on different platforms such as web-based systems, database systems, operating systems and so on.

Our research will focus on IBM Watson APIs:

• AlchemyAPI
• Conversation
• Language Translator
• Natural Language Classifier
• Personality Insights
• Text to Speech
• Tone Analyzer
• Visual Recognition
• Speech to Text
• Discovery