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RAG Chunking Strategies: Finding the Optimal Approach
The simplest approach splits text at regular intervals with optional overlap. Semantic chunking respects content boundaries like paragraphs and sections.
NLP
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Chunking Strategies for RAG: Finding the Right Granularity
Choose chunking strategy based on document structure and retrieval requirements.
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Audio AI Updates 2025: Speech Recognition and Synthesis Advances
Audio AI enables natural voice interactions and automated content processing. Choose the right tool for your latency and accuracy requirements.
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Reliable Data Extraction with LLMs: Patterns and Practices
Reliable extraction requires careful schema design, multi-pass validation, and explicit handling of uncertainty. These patterns help you build extraction…
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Semantic Router: Intent-Based LLM Routing
Semantic routing compares the meaning of a user's query against a set of example utterances. When the query is semantically similar to examples for a…
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Text Summarization API in Azure AI Language
Learn how to use Azure AI Language's summarization capabilities for extractive and abstractive document summarization.
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Custom Named Entity Recognition with Azure AI Language
Build custom NER models to extract domain-specific entities from text using Azure AI Language.
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Custom Text Classification with Azure AI Language
Build custom text classification models using Azure AI Language for domain-specific categorization needs.
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Azure AI Language Updates: New NLP Capabilities
Explore the latest updates to Azure AI Language including improved entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and text analytics capabilities.
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Speech-to-Text Improvements in Azure AI: Accuracy and Performance
Deep dive into the latest speech-to-text improvements in Azure AI including better accuracy, noise handling, and domain-specific recognition.
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Semantic Compression: Preserving Meaning with Fewer Tokens
Tomorrow we'll explore context caching strategies. Text Summarization Survey Sentence Transformers ROUGE Score
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Transformers Library: The Swiss Army Knife of NLP
Tomorrow we'll explore the Accelerate library for distributed training. Transformers Documentation Pipeline API Model Hub
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Entity Extraction at Scale with LLMs
Entity extraction at scale transforms unstructured text into structured knowledge. Combining LLM intelligence with distributed processing enables insights…
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LLM-Powered SQL Generation: Patterns and Practices
LLM-powered SQL generation democratizes data access. With proper validation and safety measures, it enables anyone to query databases using natural language.
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Document Summarization Patterns with GPT-4
Effective summarization adapts to document type, size, and audience needs. These patterns provide a foundation for production-ready summarization systems.
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Document Chunking Strategies for RAG Systems
Simple but effective for uniform content: Respect sentence boundaries: Natural document structure: Use embeddings to find natural break points: Hierarchical…
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Text Embeddings on Azure OpenAI: What They Are and When to Use Them
What text embeddings are, which Azure OpenAI embeddings models you can use in January 2023, how to compare vectors, and when embeddings are the wrong tool.
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Building Skillsets in Azure Cognitive Search
Skillsets enable powerful AI-driven content enrichment during the indexing process.
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Semantic Search in Azure Cognitive Search
Semantic search dramatically improves search relevance by understanding user intent rather than just matching keywords.
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Key Phrase Extraction with AI Builder: Identifying Important Concepts
Key phrase extraction enables: Automatic document tagging Quick content summarization Topic trend identification Enhanced search and discovery It's a simple…
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Entity Extraction with AI Builder: Mining Structured Data from Text
Train models to extract domain specific entities: Entity extraction turns unstructured text into structured data: Automatically identify people,…
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Category Classification with AI Builder: Automating Text Categorization
For content that belongs to multiple categories: Complete implementation: Category classification automates text organization: Route content to appropriate…
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Sentiment Analysis in Power Platform: Understanding Customer Emotions
AI Builder's sentiment analysis capability classifies text into positive, negative, neutral, or mixed sentiment categories—the prebuilt model runs over…
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Named Entity Recognition with Azure Cognitive Services
Named Entity Recognition is essential for extracting structured information from unstructured text, enabling applications from search enhancement to…
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Extracting Key Phrases from Text with Azure Cognitive Services
Key phrase extraction is a foundational NLP capability that enables efficient processing of large text collections and powers intelligent content management…
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Building Sentiment Analysis Solutions with Azure
Sentiment analysis transforms unstructured feedback into actionable insights, enabling data-driven decisions about products, services, and customer experience.
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Text Analytics with Azure Cognitive Services
Text Analytics enables rich understanding of unstructured text, powering applications from customer feedback analysis to content recommendation systems.
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Data Labeling Projects in Azure Machine Learning
Data labeling in Azure ML streamlines the process of creating high-quality training data, essential for building accurate machine learning models.
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Exploring the OpenAI GPT-3 API: Practical Patterns and Techniques
This is direct OpenAI access - enterprise Azure integration may come in the future. response = openai.Completion.create( engine="text-davinci-002"…
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Azure Cognitive Services: Building Intelligent Applications
Cognitive Services in mid-2021 is a sprawling catalogue—vision, speech, language, decision—that can be disorienting to navigate. Today's post is the…
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Multilingual Applications with Azure Translator
Azure Translator is one of the Cognitive Services that I've shipped most quietly—it tends to be a two-day integration rather than a headline feature, but…
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Natural Language Understanding with LUIS
Intents : Categories of user actions (e.g., BookFlight, GetWeather) Entities : Important data to extract (e.g., locations, dates, quantities) Utterances :…
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Building FAQ Bots with QnA Maker
QnA Maker simplifies building knowledge based chatbots: Easy content import from URLs, documents, and manual entry Natural language understanding for…
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Building Intelligent Bots with Azure Bot Service
I've built bot projects with the Bot Framework that I'm proud of, and bot projects that I wish I could forget. The difference is almost always scope…
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Azure LUIS: Language Understanding for Bots
LUIS: teaching machines to understand human language.
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Mining Customer Feedback with Azure Text Analytics v3
Using Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v3 and the .NET SDK to triage customer feedback: sentiment, key phrases, entities, batching and cost.