1. A computer-implemented method comprising: designating, using a computing device, a linguistic service, based on a functional service property of the linguistic service, that is available through a platform to recognize linguistic property information associated with text data; and using, with the computing device, the functional service property to broker communication between an application specifying the functional service property and a linguistic service that matches the functional service property effective to obscure the linguistic service to the platform, without the application issuing an application program interface (API) specifying the linguistic service.