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.
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. 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein responsive to an application program interface (API) call that indicates an output format for the linguistic property information, the linguistic property information is output in the output format.