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Text Classification

Introduction

This API is used to automatically classify and determine whether a text is an advertisement.

For details about endpoints, see Endpoints.

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URI

  • URI format 
    POST /v1/{project_id}/nlu/classification
  • Parameter description
    Table 1 URI parameters

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Description

    project_id

    Yes

    Project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Request

Table 2 describes the request parameters.

Table 2 Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Mandatory

Description

content

String

Yes

Text to be analyzed. The text is encoded using UTF-8 and the value contains a maximum of 400 characters. If the value exceeds 400 characters, only the first 400 characters are detected. Only Chinese is currently supported.

domain

Integer

No

The default value is 1. Currently, only advertisement detection is supported.

1: Advertisement detection

Response

Table 3 describes the response parameters.

Table 3 Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

result

Result object

Sentiment information returned when the API is successfully called.

This parameter is not included when the API call fails.

For details, see Table 4.

error_code

String

Error code returned when the API fails to be called.

The parameter is not included when the API call succeeds.

error_msg

String

Error message returned when the API fails to be called.

The parameter is not included when the API call succeeds.
Table 4 Data structure description of the result field

Parameter

Type

Description

content

String

Text to be analyzed.

label

Integer

Positive and negative labels.

  • 1: advertisement
  • 0: non-advertisement

confidence

Float

Confidence level of the labels.

Example

  • Example request 
    POST https://{endpoint}/v1/{project_id}/nlu/classification

Request Header: 
    Content-Type: application/json 
    X-Auth-Token:MIINRwYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIINODCCDTQCAQExDTALBglghkgBZQMEAgEwgguVBgkqhkiG... 

Request Body: 
    {    
     "content":"XXX Anti-Dandruff Shampoo, free delivery within the country",  
        "domain":1
    }
  • Example response
    • Successful response example 
      {
    "result": {
     "content":"XXX Anti-Dandruff Shampoo, free delivery within the country",
        "label": 1,
        "confidence": 0.74237967
    }
}
    • Failed response example 
      {
    "error_code": "NLP.0101",
    "error_msg": "Authentication failed. Please verify the token"
}

Status code

For details about status codes, see Status Code.

Error Code

For details about error codes, see Error Code.

Parent topic: LU APIs