What is Text Analytics?

Introduction

The Text Analytics API is a cloud-based service that provides advanced natural language processing over raw text and includes the following four main functions:

• Sentiment Analysis
• Key Phrase Extraction
• Named Entity Recognition
• Language Detection

This service is a part of one of the cognitive services from Microsoft Azure. Let us quickly discuss these four use-cases and then we’ll start with their implementation.

Recently, the text analytics service has been renamed “Language” service in Azure.

Sentiment analysis

With sentiment analysis, we can find out what people think of our brand or topic by mining the text for clues about positive or ...