Hands-on text analysis using Azure

Major services

• 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.

• Language detection
  Given the text, pre-defined functions make it easy to detect the language, ISO code, and even the Country of the language.

• Named entity recognition
  Using simple API functions, names, places, dates/times, etc., can be extracted from the raw text.
  

• 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.