Using Amazon Comprehend to Inspect Text and Determine the Primary Language

Amazon Comprehend is used for searching and examining texts and then gathering insights from a variety of topics (health, media, telecom, education, government, and so on) and languages in the text data format. Thus, the first step to analyze text data and utilize more complex features (such as topic, entity, and sentiment analysis) is to determine the dominant language. Determining the dominant language ensures the accuracy of more in-depth analysis. To examine the text in order to determine the primary language, there are two operations (DetectDominantLanguage and BatchDetectDominantLanguage).

Both operations expect the text in the UTF-8 format with a length of at least 20 characters and a maximum of 5,000 bytes. If you are sending a list, it should not contain more than 25 items.

The response includes what language was identified using a two-letter code. The following table shows the language codes...