Hands-on text analysis using Azure
Text-Analytics is an Artificial Intelligence-based service offered by Microsoft Azure. It unveils the insights in
Major services
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Sentiment analysis Get to know how your services/ products are performing. Extracting useful information from reviews using opinion mining can help you move in the right business direction.
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Language detection Given the text, pre-defined functions make it easy to detect the language, ISO code, and even the Country of the language.
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Named entity recognition Using simple API functions, names, places, dates/times, etc., can be extracted from the raw text.
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Other services are key phrase detection, extract health entities, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) recognition, and text summarization.
Prerequisites
- Azure subscription.
- Visual Studio IDE.
- Cognitive Services Contributor must be assigned to your Azure account, which enables you to use AI-based features of Azure.
- Once you are done with the Azure setup, create a new resource for Text Analytics. This will give you an API key and endpoint to connect your application with the Azure resource.
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