The Cloud Natural Language API provides natural language understanding
technologies to developers, including sentiment analysis, entity analysis,
entity sentiment analysis, content classification, and syntax analysis.
This API is part of the larger Cloud Machine Learning API family.
Learn more
For information on which languages are supported by the Natural Language,
see Language Support.
Create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world
scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test,
and deploy workloads.
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