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Expert knowledge for Azure AI Language development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when using CLU, custom/health NER, CQA, sentiment/PII APIs, or Language/TA/health containers, and other Azure AI Language related development tasks. Not for Azure AI Search (use azure-cognitive-search), Azure AI Document Intelligence (use azure-document-intelligence), Azure Speech in Foundry Tools (use azure-speech), Azure Translator (use azure-translator).

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Azure AI Language Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure AI Language. Covers troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

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Category Index

CategoryLinesDescription
TroubleshootingL37-L42Diagnosing and fixing common issues in Azure Language custom NER and conversational question answering (CQA), including model errors, configuration problems, and troubleshooting workflows.
Best PracticesL43-L53Best practices for designing and authoring CLU, custom NER, PII, and CQA projects, including data prep, schemas, lifecycles, chitchat personas, and document formatting.
Decision MakingL54-L63Guides for choosing regions and app types, planning CQA solutions, and deciding or executing migrations from LUIS, QnA Maker, Text Analytics, and Language Studio to Azure Language/Fountry.
Architecture & Design PatternsL64-L71Designing and implementing regional failover and high-availability patterns for CLU, custom NER, custom text classification, and orchestration workflow models in Azure AI Language.
Limits & QuotasL72-L95Limits, quotas, languages, and model lifecycles for Azure Language features (CLU, NER, text classification, CQA, health), including data size, rate, throughput, and container constraints.
SecurityL96-L107Securing Azure Language and CQA: encryption at rest (including CMK), RBAC, managed identities, SAS tokens, network isolation/Private Link, and secure deployment/data access configuration.
ConfigurationL108-L124Configuring Azure AI Language features: CLU fine-tuning, containers, custom/health NER, orchestration None intent, CQA scoring/telemetry, FHIR output, and related project/skill settings.
Integrations & Coding PatternsL125-L144How to call Azure Language/TA/health/CLU/CQA APIs and SDKs for NER, entity linking, key phrases, language detection, sentiment, PII redaction, relations, and orchestration workflows.
DeploymentL145-L155Guides for deploying and running custom language/NER/CQA/sentiment/health models across regions, on-prem via Docker containers, and moving projects between environments.

Troubleshooting

TopicURL
Resolve common issues with custom NER in Azure Languagehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/faq
Troubleshoot common CQA issues and errorshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/troubleshooting

Best Practices

TopicURL
Apply CLU project authoring best practiceshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/best-practices
Adapt PII detection to custom domain terminologyhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/personally-identifiable-information/how-to/adapt-to-domain-pii
Implement CQA project best practiceshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/best-practices
Follow CQA project development lifecyclehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/project-development-lifecycle
Apply authoring best practices to CQA projectshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/best-practices
Add chitchat personas to CQA projectshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/chit-chat
Apply document formatting best practices for custom Q&Ahttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/reference/document-format-guidelines

Decision Making

TopicURL
Choose Azure regions for Language service featureshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/regional-support
Choose CLU app vs orchestration workflowhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/app-architecture
Migrate Azure Language Studio projects to Microsoft Foundryhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/migration-studio-to-foundry
Plan a CQA app and select Azure resourceshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/plan
Decide migration from LUIS and QnA Maker to Azure Languagehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/reference/migrate
Migrate Text Analytics apps to Azure Language APIhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/reference/migrate-language-service-latest

Architecture & Design Patterns

TopicURL
Design regional failover for CLU modelshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/how-to/fail-over
Design regional failover for custom NER modelshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/fail-over
Design regional failover for custom text classificationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/fail-over
Implement regional failover for orchestration workflow modelshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/concepts/fail-over

Limits & Quotas

TopicURL
Data size and rate limits for Azure Language featureshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/data-limits
Understand lifecycle timelines for Azure Language modelshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/model-lifecycle
Use CLU containers with on-premises limitshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/how-to/use-containers
Check CLU supported languages and localeshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/language-support
Reference CLU prebuilt entity componentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/prebuilt-component-reference
Review CLU data and throughput limitshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/service-limits
Manage custom NER training jobs and expirationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/train-model
Check language support matrix for custom text classificationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/language-support
Review data and rate limits for custom text classificationhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/service-limits
Check language support for entity linkinghttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/entity-linking/language-support
Review language support for Key Phrase Extractionhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/language-support
Understand entity categories and types in NERhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/concepts/named-entity-categories
Check language support for Azure NER featurehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/language-support
Check language support for orchestration workflow projectshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/language-support
Review data and throughput limits for orchestration workflowhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/service-limits
Understand PII detection container data limitshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/personally-identifiable-information/how-to/use-containers
Understand CQA project and service limitshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/limits
Review language support for CQA projectshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/language-support
Explore medical entity categories in health analyticshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/concepts/health-entity-categories
Review language support for Text Analytics for healthhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/language-support

Security

TopicURL
Understand data-at-rest encryption in Azure Languagehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/encryption-data-at-rest
Configure RBAC for Azure Language resourceshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/role-based-access-control
Use managed identities to secure storage blob accesshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/native-document-support/managed-identities
Configure SAS tokens for Azure storage blobshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/native-document-support/shared-access-signatures
Configure Azure resources for CQA fine-tuninghttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/configure-azure-resources
Configure CMK encryption for CQA data at resthttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/encrypt-data-at-rest
Enable network isolation and Private Link for CQAhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/network-isolation
Secure Azure Language deployments and data accesshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/secure-deployment

Configuration

TopicURL
Configure Azure resources for CLU fine-tune modelshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/configure-azure-resources
Configure Azure AI Language service containershttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/configure-containers
Use supported data formats for custom NERhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/concepts/data-formats
Use NER entity metadata and resolutionshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/concepts/entity-metadata
Map NER API versions and entity tags/typeshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/concepts/ga-preview-mapping
Configure NER skill parameters and inference optionshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/how-to/skill-parameters
Configure the None intent behavior in orchestration workflowhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/concepts/none-intent
Interpret and configure CQA confidence scoreshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/confidence-score
Enable and query CQA analytics telemetryhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/analytics
Manage CQA project settings and sourceshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/manage-knowledge-base
Use assertion detection in Text Analytics for healthhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/concepts/assertion-detection
Configure FHIR structuring in health analytics outputhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/concepts/fhir
Configure Text Analytics for health container settingshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/how-to/configure-containers

Integrations & Coding Patterns

TopicURL
Integrate Azure Language via SDK and REST APIshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/developer-guide
Call custom NER prediction API and SDKhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/call-api
Start building custom NER models via Foundry or RESThttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/quickstart
Call the entity linking API with correct parametershttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/entity-linking/how-to/call-api
Invoke the Key Phrase Extraction API correctlyhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/how-to/call-api
Implement language detection using SDKs and RESThttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/language-detection/quickstart
Perform NER calls with Azure Language servicehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/how-to-call
Build a .NET app using NER client libraryhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/quickstart
Integrate CLU and custom Q&A via orchestration workflowhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/tutorials/connect-services
Redact PII from native documents with Azure Languagehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/personally-identifiable-information/how-to/redact-document-pii
Automate CQA authoring with REST APIhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/authoring
Use the CQA prebuilt answering APIhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/prebuilt
Call sentiment analysis and opinion mining APIs correctlyhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/sentiment-opinion-mining/how-to/call-api
Use relation extraction in Text Analytics for healthhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/concepts/relation-extraction
Call Text Analytics for health APIhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/how-to/call-api
Quickstart integrating Text Analytics for healthhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/quickstart

Deployment

TopicURL
Deploy custom language projects to multiple regionshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/custom-features/multi-region-deployment
Deploy custom NER with Docker containers on-premiseshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/use-containers
Deploy Key Phrase Extraction containers on-premiseshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/how-to/use-containers
Run NER Docker containers on-premiseshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/how-to/use-containers
Create and deploy a CQA agent in Foundryhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/deploy-agent
Move CQA projects between environmentshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/migrate-knowledge-base
Deploy Sentiment Analysis containers on-premiseshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/sentiment-opinion-mining/how-to/use-containers
Deploy Text Analytics for health containers on-premiseshttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/how-to/use-containers

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