README.md

Language Service - Overview

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Last updated: 2024-11-19

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Azure Language Service is part of Azure AI, is cloud-based service that provides a suite of Natural Language Processing (NLP) features for understanding and analyzing text. It helps build intelligent applications using the web-based Language Studio, REST APIs, and client libraries, offering a comprehensive suite of AI services and tools for developers to build intelligent natural language solutions.
It leverages state-of-the-art language models, including Z-Code++ and fine-tuned GPT models.

References

• What’s new in Azure AI Language | BUILD 2024
• What's new in Azure AI Language?
• azurerm_cognitive_account - terraform doc

Overview

Azure Language Service unifies several previously available Azure AI services, including:
Text Analytics
QnA Maker
Language Understanding (LUIS)

Feature	Description
Unified Experience	Supports a unified experience in Azure AI Studio, integrating with other Azure AI services like Speech and Vision.
Azure AI Studio	Provides playgrounds for trying out features like Summarization and PII detection.
Prompt Flow	A development tool in Azure AI Studio to streamline the development cycle of AI applications.
Prebuilt Capabilities	Includes summarization, PII detection, and text analytics for various domains, such as healthcare.
Custom Features	Enhanced capabilities in Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) for intent identification and entity extraction.
Summarization	Uses extractive text summarization to produce summaries of documents and conversation transcriptions.
Conversation Summarization	Supports 12 additional languages and improved chapter title features.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Detection	Identifies and redacts sensitive information such as phone numbers, email addresses, and forms of identification.
Conversational PII Redaction	Now generally available for English-language contexts.
Named Entity Recognition (NER)	Categorizes entities (words or phrases) in unstructured text across predefined categories like people, events, places, and dates.
Custom Named Entity Recognition	Allows users to train custom models to recognize domain-specific entities.
Key Phrase Extraction	Evaluates and returns the main concepts in unstructured text as a list.
Entity Linking	Disambiguates the identity of entities found in unstructured text and returns links to Wikipedia.
Language Detection	Detects the language of a document and returns a language code for a wide range of languages.
Expanded Language Detection	Supports additional scripts according to the ISO 15924 standard.
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining	Analyzes text to determine positive or negative sentiment and associates it with specific aspects of the text.
Text Analytics for Health	Extracts and labels relevant medical information from unstructured text, such as clinical notes and medical literature.
Custom Text Classification	Enables users to train models to classify text into custom categories based on their specific needs.
Data Augmentation for Diacritics	Useful for generating variations of training data for languages with diacritic variations.

Use Cases

Use Case	Description
Healthcare	Text analytics for extracting healthcare-specific entities from unstructured text.
Security	PII detection and redaction to protect sensitive information.
Customer Service	Conversational intent identification to improve customer interactions.
Text Analytics	Extract insights from text data for business intelligence.
Customer Support	Automate responses and improve customer service with sentiment analysis and entity recognition.
Content Moderation	Detect and redact sensitive information in user-generated content.
Document Summarization	Automatically generate summaries for long documents and transcripts.
Legal Document Analysis	Extract key information and summarize legal documents to assist legal professionals.
Market Research	Analyze customer feedback and social media to gain insights into market trends and consumer sentiment.
Education	Automatically grade essays and provide feedback on student writing.
E-commerce	Enhance product search and recommendation systems by understanding customer queries and reviews.
Human Resources	Analyze employee feedback and survey responses to improve workplace culture and policies.
Financial Services	Extract and analyze financial data from reports and documents to support decision-making.

Services

Service	Description
Academic	Provides academic knowledge and research data, enabling access to scholarly articles and academic resources.
AnomalyDetector	Detects anomalies in time-series data using machine learning algorithms, helping to identify unusual patterns and trends.
Bing.Autosuggest	Provides autocomplete suggestions for search queries, enhancing user experience by predicting search terms.
Bing.Autosuggest.v7	Updated version of Bing Autosuggest with improved algorithms and features for better search term predictions.
Bing.CustomSearch	Customizable search engine that allows developers to tailor search results to specific needs and preferences.
Bing.Search	General web search capabilities, providing comprehensive search results from the web.
Bing.Search.v7	Updated version of Bing Search with enhanced search algorithms and features for more accurate search results.
Bing.Speech	Converts speech to text and vice versa, enabling voice recognition and text-to-speech functionalities.
Bing.SpellCheck	Checks and corrects spelling in text, improving the accuracy of written content.
Bing.SpellCheck.v7	Updated version of Bing SpellCheck with enhanced spelling correction algorithms.
CognitiveServices	A suite of AI services for vision, speech, language, and decision-making, providing pre-built and customizable models.
ComputerVision	Analyzes visual content to extract information, such as object detection, image classification, and OCR.
ContentModerator	Moderates text, image, and video content to detect and filter inappropriate or harmful content.
ContentSafety	Ensures content safety by detecting harmful content in text, images, and videos, helping to maintain a safe environment.
CustomSpeech	Customizable speech recognition models that can be tailored to specific vocabularies and environments.
CustomVision.Prediction	Customizable image classification models for prediction, allowing developers to create and deploy custom vision models.
CustomVision.Training	Customizable image classification models for training, enabling the creation of custom vision models with specific datasets.
Emotion	Detects emotions in images, providing insights into the emotional state of individuals based on facial expressions.
Face	Detects and recognizes faces in images, offering features like face verification, identification, and analysis.
FormRecognizer	Extracts information from forms and documents using AI, automating data entry and document processing tasks.
ImmersiveReader	Helps users read and comprehend text by providing tools for text-to-speech, translation, and text highlighting.
LUIS	Language Understanding Intelligent Service for natural language processing, enabling the creation of conversational AI applications.
LUIS.Authoring	Tools for authoring LUIS models, allowing developers to create and manage language understanding models.
MetricsAdvisor	Monitors metrics and diagnoses issues using AI, helping to identify and resolve performance problems.
OpenAI	Provides access to OpenAI's language models for various tasks, such as content generation, summarization, and natural language understanding.
Personalizer	Delivers personalized experiences for users by using reinforcement learning to make real-time decisions.
QnAMaker	Creates a question-and-answer layer over your data, enabling the creation of conversational bots and knowledge bases.
Recommendations	Provides product recommendations based on user behavior and preferences, enhancing the user experience.
SpeakerRecognition	Identifies and verifies speakers based on their voice, offering features like speaker identification and verification.
Speech	Converts speech to text and vice versa, enabling voice recognition and text-to-speech functionalities.
SpeechServices	Comprehensive suite of speech services including recognition, synthesis, and translation, providing end-to-end speech solutions.
SpeechTranslation	Translates spoken language in real-time, enabling cross-language communication through speech translation.
TextAnalytics	Analyzes text for sentiment, key phrases, entities, and language, providing insights into textual data.
TextTranslation	Translates text between languages, enabling multilingual communication and content localization.
WebLM	Provides language models for web-based applications, enhancing natural language processing capabilities for web services.

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