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Perspective is an API that uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact a comment might have on a conversation. For support, see: https://support.perspectiveapi.com/

Perspective Comment Analyzer API documentation

The Perspective API is part of the Conversation AI research effort that aims to help increase empathy, participation, and quality in online conversation at scale.

This repository contains the necessary documentation to start using the Perspective Comment Analyzer API.

NOTE: While there are example calls to the API and demos in this repository, the code for the API is not open source.

Using Perspective API

1. Get started with Perspective API
   • About
   • Sample requests
   • Support
2. API Reference
   • Key concepts
   • Clients
   • Attributes
     • Model cards
   • Methods
   • Limits and errors
3. Concepts
   • Score normalization guide
4. Case studies
   • The New York Times
5. Contribution guidelines
   • How to label data
   • Privacy
6. Contact us

Download the example data CSV.

Releases and updates

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Perspective API score normalization: fixes for Toxicity

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Perspective API score normalization change

Improve the API

Help improve the Perspective API by leveraging the DoNotStore flag to ensure that all submitted comments are automatically deleted after scores are returned and/or the SuggestCommentScore method to submit corrections.

About this project

Perspective was created by Jigsaw and Google’s Counter Abuse Technology team in a collaborative research project called Conversation-AI. We open source experiments, attributes, and research data to explore the strengths and weaknesses of ML as a tool for online discussion.

Contact us if you have questions.

Privacy and Terms of Service

The Perspective API is provided under the Google Privacy Policy, and the Google Cloud API terms of service.