Category: Amazon Comprehend

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 […]

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service that can extract key phrases, places, names, organizations, events, and even sentiment from unstructured text, and more. Customers usually want to add their own entity types unique to their business, like proprietary part codes or industry-specific terms. In November 2018, enhancements to Amazon Comprehend added the ability to […]

September 2022: Post was reviewed for accuracy. December 2021: This post has been updated with the latest use cases and capabilities for Amazon Textract.  September 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Documents are a primary tool for record keeping, communication, collaboration, and transactions across many industries, including financial, […]

In today’s connected world, it’s important for companies to monitor social media channels to protect their brand and customer relationships. Companies try to learn about their customers, products, and services through social media, emails, and other communications. Machine learning (ML) models can help address some of these needs. However, the process to build and train […]

Amazon Comprehend customers are solving a variety of use cases with custom classification and entity type models. For example, customers are building classifiers to organize their daily customer feedback into categories like “loyalty,” “sales,” or “product defect.” Custom entity models enable customers to analyze text for their own terms and phrases, such as product IDs […]