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IBM NLU (Sentiment Analysis)

The IBM Natural Language Understanding tool for Superface allows you to quickly add the following capabilities:

  • Analyze Sentiment

Requirements​

In order to use the IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding tool you will first need to register an account. You can do this via the IBM Cloud website.

Once you have an account you will need to create a Natural Language Understanding instance. You can do this from the IBM Cloud Catalog.

You must choose the region that your NLU instance will be created in. If you are not sure, choose the city that is closest to you.

We recommend choosing the Lite pricing plan which offers 30,000 NLU items per month for free. If you need more than this you can always upgrade later.

Authentication​

To use the IBM Natural Language Understanding tool with Superface you will need the API key for the NLU instance you have created. You can find this through the Resource List in your IBM Cloud account.

The IBM Cloud Resource List

Click to copy the API key from the Credentials section:

The credentials section

In the Superface config for the IBM NLU tool you need to enter values for three fields:

  1. The REGION is the location of your NLU instance. You can find this by looking at the URL in the credentials section, for example eu-de is the location code for Frankfurt.
  2. The username should be set to apikey.
  3. In the password field you can paste your API Key.

Authenticate the permissions on Google

Click on Save Changes to update the tool with the new credentials.

Import your schema

Remember to re-import the schema in your GPT to update it with the new capabilities added by this tool.

Example prompts​

To test that everything is working as it should be, from your GPT or the Superface Agent you can try asking:

  • What is the sentiment of this: "I was very happy with the performance of Superface after setting up their built in tools, it allowed me to connect my GPT to other services very quickly."