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Language support for Text Analytics for health

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Use this article to learn which natural languages are supported by Text Analytics for health and its Docker container.

Hosted API Service

The hosted API service supports the English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese languages.

When structuring the API request, the relevant language tags must be added for these languages:

English – “en”
Spanish – “es”
French  - “fr”
German – “de”
Italian – “it”
Portuguese – “pt”

json

{
    "analysisInput": {
        "documents": [
            {
                "text": "El médico prescrió 200 mg de ibuprofeno.",
                "language": "es",
                "id": "1"
            }
        ]
    },
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "analyze 1",
            "kind": "Healthcare",
            "parameters":
            {
            "modelVersion": "2022-08-15-preview"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Docker container

The docker container supports the English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Hebrew languages. Full details for deploying the service in a container can be found here.

In order to download the new container images from the Microsoft public container registry, use the following docker pull command.

For English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese:

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cognitive-services/textanalytics/healthcare:latin

For Hebrew:

docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/azure-cognitive-services/textanalytics/healthcare:semitic

When structuring the API request, the relevant language tags must be added for these languages:

English – “en”
Spanish – “es”
French  - “fr”
German – “de”
Italian – “it”
Portuguese – “pt”
Hebrew – “he”

The following json is an example of a JSON file attached to the Language request's POST body, for a Spanish document:

json

{
    "analysisInput": {
        "documents": [
            {
                "text": "El médico prescrió 200 mg de ibuprofeno.",
                "language": "es",
                "id": "1"
            }
        ]
    },
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "analyze 1",
            "kind": "Healthcare",
        }
    ]
}

See also

Text Analytics for health overview