Google has now come up with a beta version of its latest Cloud Natural Language API. Recently, Google has made the announcement of this new API and its features giving access to developers to the Google-powered sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and syntax analysis.
Source: Google Cloud Platform
This Google Cloud Natural Language API is currently supporting texts in English, Spanish, and Japanese. The API is going to join hands with some of the other APIs such as Cloud Speech API, the Vision API, and the Translate API.
Services like sentiment analysis and entity recognition are not new to this world. Thomson Reuters OpenCalais is providing these services for almost ten years.
Entity Recognition is nothing but the ability to automatically identify and label the people, organizations, location, and events mentioned in the text.
Google is coming with an interesting feature of syntax analysis API that can identify parts of speech and create dependency parse trees are not widely available yet. Syntax analysis API will surely attract developers and it will be interesting to their take on it. Chat bots will also get help from this API as it will help them understand the incoming requests in a better way.
The Cloud Natural Language API is priced using units of measurement known as text records. Prices for usage of the Cloud Natural Language API are computed monthly based on which feature of the API is used, and how many text records are evaluated using those features. These prices are noted in the table below.
Source: Google Cloud Platform
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