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DetectDominantLanguage

Determines the dominant language of the input text. For a list of languages that Amazon Comprehend can detect, see Amazon Comprehend Supported Languages.

Request Syntax

{
   "Text": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Text

A UTF-8 text string. Each string should contain at least 20 characters and must contain fewer that 5,000 bytes of UTF-8 encoded characters.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{
   "Languages": [ 
      { 
         "LanguageCode": "string",
         "Score": number
      }
   ]
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Languages

The languages that Amazon Comprehend detected in the input text. For each language, the response returns the RFC 5646 language code and the level of confidence that Amazon Comprehend has in the accuracy of its inference. For more information about RFC 5646, see Tags for Identifying Languages on the IETF Tools web site.

Type: Array of DominantLanguage objects

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalServerException

An internal server error occurred. Retry your request.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

The request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TextSizeLimitExceededException

The size of the input text exceeds the limit. Use a smaller document.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Example

Detect dominant language

If the input text is "Bob lives in Seattle. He is a software engineer at Amazon.", the operation returns the following: 

{
    "Languages": [
        {
            "LanguageCode": "en",
            "Score": 0.9774383902549744
        },
        {
            "LanguageCode": "de",
            "Score": 0.010717987082898617
        }
    ]
}

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: