Before You Start

This document provides descriptions, syntax, parameters, and examples of Natural Language Processing (NLP) APIs. You can find your desired content using Table 1.

Table 1 Document overview

Chapter

Description

API Overview

Components and lists of NLP APIs

Environment Preparation

Preparations before using the APIs

API Calling

Representational State Transfer (REST) message bodies, calling methods, and examples

NLP Fundamentals APIs

APIs for NLP Fundamentals, including word segmentation, named entity recognition (NER), and sentence vector APIs.

LG APIs

APIs for Language Generation (LG), including the text summarization API.

LU APIs

APIs for Language Understanding (LU), including sentiment analysis and text classification APIs.

MT APIs

APIs for Machine Translation (MT), including text translation and language detection APIs.

Common Parameters

Common parameters, status codes, and error codes used by NLP APIs.