Cloud Natural Language

Cloud Natural Language can help us analyze and understand the contents of a text file. We may not even know which language that text is written in, and the Natural Language API will detect it for us and provide that information as part of its response.

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Please take into account that while the list is constantly growing, not all languages are supported for all functions. You can find an up-to-date list at the following URL: https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/languages. I also added this address to the Further reading section, so you can always have it to hand.

Once our text is ready, there are five different types of analysis that we can run on all or part of the contents of a text file:

• Content classification: This analyzes the provided text and assigns it a content category.
• Syntactic analysis: This breaks up the text into sentences and tokens and provides additional details about each of them.
• Entity analysis: This detects...