Cognitive Services Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition is now available
Published date: June 06, 2019
Cognitive Services Text Analytics' Named Entity Recognition is now available
We are happy to announce the general availability of Named Entity Recognition supporting English and Spanish languages as part of Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics API. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the ability to take free-form text and identify the occurrences of entities such as people, locations, organizations, and more. With a simple API call, NER in Text Analytics uses robust machine learning models to find and categorize more than twenty types of named entities in any text document.
We have also released 19 new language models for public preview increasing our NER human language coverage to 21. In addition to English and Spanish, we have enabled the full set of supported types for 3 more languages in public preview; French, German and Chinese-Simplified.
The following types and their corresponding languages are now supported.
TYPE | SUBTYPE | EXAMPLE | Languages Supported |
Person | N/A* | "Jeff", "Paul G. Allen" | |
Location | N/A* | "Redmond, Washington", "Paris" | |
Organization | N/A* | "Microsoft" | |
Quantity | Number | "6", "six" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | Percentage | "50%", "fifty percent" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | Ordinal | "2nd", "second" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | NumberRange | "4 to 8" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | Age | "90 days old", "thirty years old" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | Currency | "$10.99" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | Dimension | "10 miles", "40 cm" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
Quantity | Temperature | "32 degrees" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | N/A* | "6:30PM February 4, 2012" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | Date | "May 2nd, 2017", "05/02/2017" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | Time | "8AM", "8:00" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | DateRange | "May 2nd to May 5th" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | TimeRange | "6pm to 7pm" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | Duration | "1 minute and 45 seconds" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | Set | "every Tuesday" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
DateTime | TimeZone | “UTC-7”, “CST” | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
URL | N/A* | "https://www.bing.com" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
N/A* | "support@microsoft.com" | English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Simplified) |
*Depending on the input and extracted entities, certain entities may omit the sub-type.