Classify Text into Categories with the Natural Language API
1 hour
7 Credits
GSP063
Overview
The Cloud Natural Language API lets you extract entities from text, perform sentiment and syntactic analysis, and classify text into categories. In this lab, we'll focus on text classification. Using a database of 700+ categories, this API feature makes it easy to classify a large dataset of text.
What you'll learn
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Creating a Natural Language API request and calling the API with curl
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Using the NL API's text classification feature
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Using text classification to understand a dataset of news articles
What you'll need
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GSP063OverviewSetup and RequirementsConfirm that the Cloud Natural Language API is enabledCreate an API KeyClassify a news articleClassifying a large text datasetCreating a BigQuery table for our categorized text dataClassifying news data and storing the result in BigQueryAnalyzing categorized news data in BigQueryCongratulations!
Score
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Create an API Key
/ 25
Create a request to Classify a news article
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Check the Entity Analysis response
/ 25
Create a new Dataset and table for categorized text data
/ 25