Using Cognitive Services for LU

One of the Azure Cognitive Services is Language. Language refers to any insights and meaning we can derive from text. Two features within this category are interesting to use with Power BI, as outlined here:

• Text Analytics: This includes many features that help extract information from unstructured text.
• Question answering: This creates a search engine on a knowledge base that contains mostly text that can be queried with natural language.

In the following sections, we will delve into the options we have to analyze text, and how we can use question answering to create an intuitive search engine from a knowledge base that resides outside of Power BI.

Using Azure's Text Analytics

Text can be easy for us to read but is hard for data analysts to work with. As part of your data, you may have product reviews or feedback forms that are challenging to visualize in Power BI. To extract some key insights from unstructured text such...