Category: Amazon Comprehend

Update Aug 12, 2020 – New features: Amazon Comprehend adds five new languages(Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese) read here. Amazon Comprehend increased the limit of number of entities per custom entity model from 12 to 25 read here. Organizations across industries have a lot of unstructured data that you can evaluate to get entity-based […]

July 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that makes it easy to extract text and data from scanned documents. Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. This allows you to […]

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Comprehend Medical to extract medication names and medical conditions to monitor drug safety and adverse events. Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to easily extract relevant medical information from unstructured text. We query the OpenFDA API (an open-source API published by […]

Update Sep 28, 2020 – New features: Amazon Comprehend custom entity recognition real-time endpoints now supports application auto scaling. Please refer to the section Auto Scaling with real-time endpoints in this post to learn more. Update Aug 12, 2020 – New features: Amazon Comprehend adds five new languages(Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese) read here. Amazon […]

Organizations across industries have a large number of physical documents such as invoices that they need to process. It is difficult to extract information from a scanned document when it contains tables, forms, paragraphs, and check boxes. Organization have been addressing these problems with manual effort or custom code or by using Optical Character Recognition […]

Update October 2020: Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon SageMaker GroundTruth to help label your datasets for Comprehend’s Custom Model training. For Custom EntityRecognizer, checkout Annotations documentation for more details. For Custom MultiClass and MultiLabel Classifier, checkout MultiClass and MultiLabel documentation for more details respectively. Named entity recognition (NER) involves sifting through text data to locate noun phrases […]

In today’s world, social media has become a place where customers share their experiences with services that they consume. Every telecom provider wants to have the ability to understand their customer pain points as soon as possible and to do this carriers frequently establish a social media team within their NOC (network operation center). This […]

Amazon Comprehend is a fully managed natural language processing (NLP) service that enables text analytics to extract insights from the content of documents. Amazon Comprehend supports custom classification and enables you to build custom classifiers that are specific to your requirements, without the need for any ML expertise. Previously, custom classification supported multi-class classification, which is […]

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to find insights and relationships in texts. Amazon Comprehend identifies the language of the text; extracts key phrases, places, people, brands, or events; and understands how positive or negative the text is. For more information about everything Amazon Comprehend can do, […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. We’re excited to announce an end-to-end solution that leverages natural language processing to analyze and visualize unstructured text in your Amazon OpenSearch Service domain with Amazon Comprehend in the AWS Cloud. You can deploy this solution in minutes with an […]