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Azure AI Language Services

Introduction to Azure AI Language Services

Azure AI Language services provide a suite of APIs and services to understand and process human language. These services can be used for tasks like sentiment analysis, language detection, entity recognition, question answering, and more. Azure AI Language unlocks new capabilities for your applications by making it easier to understand and interact with text and speech.

Azure AI Language Overview

Key Capabilities

Azure AI Language offers a comprehensive set of capabilities:

  • Language Detection: Automatically identifies the language of a text.
  • Sentiment Analysis: Determines the emotional tone of text (positive, negative, neutral).
  • Entity Recognition: Extracts named entities (people, organizations, locations, etc.) from text.
  • Question Answering: Builds a knowledge base from your documents and answers questions based on that knowledge.
  • Language Understanding (LUIS): Build conversational interfaces.

Getting Started

Here's how to get started with Azure AI Language:

  1. Create an Azure Subscription: If you don't have one, sign up for a free Azure account.
  2. Choose a Service: Select the specific AI Language service you want to use (e.g., Language Service, LUIS).
  3. Create a Resource: Create an Azure resource for the selected service.
  4. Explore the APIs and SDKs: Use the available APIs and SDKs to integrate the service into your applications.
  5. Try the Quickstarts: Start with the available quickstarts for hands-on experience.

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