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version: "1.0.1" name: azure-language-service description: 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 building CLU apps, custom NER, CQA/QnA, sentiment/summarization, or PII redaction with Azure Language, and other Azure AI Language related development tasks. Not for Azure AI Search (use azure-cognitive-search), Azure AI Speech (use azure-speech), Azure Translator (use azure-translator), Azure AI Bot Service (use azure-bot-service). compatibility: Requires network access. Uses mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch or fetch_webpage to retrieve documentation. metadata: generated_at: "2026-06-28" generator: "docs2skills/1.0.0"
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.
How to Use This Skill
IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g.,L35-L120), useread_filewith the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g.,[security.md](security.md)), useread_fileon the linked reference file
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This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:
- Preferred: Use
mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetchwith query stringfrom=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown. - Fallback: Use
fetch_webpagewith query stringfrom=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.
Category Index
| Category | Lines | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troubleshooting | L37-L42 | Diagnosing and fixing common issues in custom text classification and custom question answering, including model performance, configuration, and runtime/response problems. | |
| Best Practices | L43-L54 | Best practices for designing, labeling, and evaluating CLU, custom NER, text classification, and CQA projects, including multilingual handling, emojis, schemas, and autolabeling. | |
| Decision Making | L55-L63 | Guidance on choosing regions and resources, lifecycle policies, and migration paths from LUIS, QnA Maker, Text Analytics, and Language Studio to Azure Language and Microsoft Foundry | |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | L64-L70 | Architectural guidance for CLU and custom text classification: choosing CLU vs orchestration workflows, and designing regional backup, redundancy, and failover strategies. | |
| Limits & Quotas | L71-L89 | Limits, quotas, and language/region support for Azure AI Language features (CLU, NER, PII, QnA, etc.), including data sizes, throughput, containers, and model lifecycles. | |
| Security | L90-L100 | Security, encryption, and access control for Azure AI Language: RBAC, managed identities, SAS, CMK/data-at-rest, network isolation, Private Link, and CQA-specific security setup. | |
| Configuration | L101-L122 | Configuring Azure AI Language/CLU/NER/CQA projects and containers, including data formats, resources, Docker/on-prem setups, metrics, confidence scores, PII redaction, and sentiment/summarization. | |
| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L123-L151 | End-to-end code patterns and SDK/REST integrations for Azure Language features (CLU, NER, entity linking, key phrases, language detection, sentiment, summarization, health, Power Automate). | |
| Deployment | L152-L159 | How to deploy and run Azure AI Language models (custom classification, NER, QnA, key phrases, language detection) across regions, containers, AKS, and migrate projects/resources. |
Troubleshooting
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Resolve common issues in custom text classification | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/faq | |
| Diagnose and resolve custom question answering issues | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/troubleshooting |
Best Practices
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Handle multilingual and emoji offsets in Language | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/multilingual-emoji-support | |
| Apply CLU conversational design best practices | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/best-practices | |
| Implement multilingual CLU projects effectively | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/multiple-languages | |
| Prepare data and design schemas for custom NER | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/design-schema | |
| Label data effectively for custom NER training | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/tag-data | |
| Use autolabeling to accelerate custom NER annotation | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/use-autolabeling | |
| Implement best practices for CQA project quality | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/best-practices | |
| Apply project authoring best practices in CQA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/best-practices |
Decision Making
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Choose Azure regions for Language service features | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/regional-support | |
| Migrate Azure Language Studio projects to Microsoft Foundry | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/migration-studio-to-foundry | |
| Choose and manage Azure resources for CQA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/azure-resources | |
| Decide migration from LUIS and QnA Maker to Azure Language | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/reference/migrate | |
| Migrate Text Analytics apps to Azure Language API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/reference/migrate-language-service-latest |
Architecture & Design Patterns
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Choose CLU vs orchestration workflow architecture | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/app-architecture | |
| Design CLU regional backup and failover | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/how-to/fail-over | |
| Design regional fail-over for custom text classification solutions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/fail-over |
Limits & Quotas
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Data size and rate limits for Azure Language features | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/data-limits | |
| Understand lifecycle timelines for Azure Language models | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/model-lifecycle | |
| Apply CLU Docker container request limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/how-to/use-containers | |
| Apply CLU data, region, and throughput limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/service-limits | |
| Check language and region support for custom NER | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/language-support | |
| Language support matrix for custom text classification | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/language-support | |
| Review custom text classification data and rate limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/service-limits | |
| Check language support for entity linking API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/entity-linking/language-support | |
| Check language support for key phrase extraction | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/language-support | |
| Review language detection supported languages and codes | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/language-detection/language-support | |
| Review language support for Named Entity Recognition | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/language-support | |
| Review orchestration workflow data and throughput limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/service-limits | |
| Apply PII container per-call character and document limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/personally-identifiable-information/how-to/use-containers | |
| Check language support for Azure PII detection | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/personally-identifiable-information/language-support | |
| Custom question answering limits and boundaries | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/limits |
Security
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Understand Language service data-at-rest encryption | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/encryption-data-at-rest | |
| Apply Azure RBAC to Azure Language resources | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/role-based-access-control | |
| Use managed identities for Language Blob access | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/native-document-support/managed-identities | |
| Create SAS tokens for Language Blob access | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/native-document-support/shared-access-signatures | |
| Configure Azure resources and permissions for CQA fine-tuning | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/configure-azure-resources | |
| Configure data-at-rest encryption and CMK for CQA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/encrypt-data-at-rest | |
| Configure network isolation and Private Link for CQA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/network-isolation |
Configuration
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Configure Azure resources for CLU fine-tune models | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/configure-azure-resources | |
| Configure Azure Language service containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/configure-containers | |
| Format data correctly for CLU projects | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/data-formats | |
| Configure and use CLU None intent | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/concepts/none-intent | |
| Use CLU prebuilt entity components | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/prebuilt-component-reference | |
| Create custom NER projects and configure Azure resources | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/create-project | |
| Configure and run Custom NER Docker containers on-premises | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/how-to/use-containers | |
| Use required data formats for custom text classification | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-text-classification/concepts/data-formats | |
| Map NER entity types and tags across API versions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/concepts/ga-preview-mapping | |
| Configure NER skill parameters and inference options | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/how-to/skill-parameters | |
| Configure native document PII redaction with Azure Language | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/personally-identifiable-information/how-to/redact-document-pii | |
| Understand and configure confidence scores in CQA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/concepts/confidence-score | |
| Enable diagnostics and run analytics for CQA projects | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/analytics | |
| Add and configure chitchat personas in CQA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/chit-chat | |
| Run Sentiment Analysis Docker containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/sentiment-opinion-mining/how-to/use-containers | |
| Run Summarization Docker containers on-premises | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/summarization/how-to/use-containers | |
| Configure Text Analytics for health containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/how-to/configure-containers | |
| Run Text Analytics for health containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/how-to/use-containers |
Integrations & Coding Patterns
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Integrate Azure Language SDK and REST APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/developer-guide | |
| Use Azure Language features asynchronously | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/use-asynchronously | |
| Create CLU fine-tuning tasks via Foundry and REST API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/how-to/create-project | |
| Integrate CLU with Bot Framework SDK | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/conversational-language-understanding/tutorials/bot-framework | |
| Start building custom NER models via Foundry or REST | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/custom-named-entity-recognition/quickstart | |
| Call Azure Entity Linking API from applications | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/entity-linking/how-to/call-api | |
| Call entity linking via SDKs and REST API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/entity-linking/quickstart | |
| Call the key phrase extraction API correctly | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/how-to/call-api | |
| Use key phrase extraction via .NET client library | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/quickstart | |
| Call language detection API and interpret results | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/language-detection/how-to/call-api | |
| Implement language detection using SDKs and REST | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/language-detection/quickstart | |
| Call the NER API to extract named entities | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/how-to-call | |
| Use the NER client library to extract entities | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/quickstart | |
| Connect orchestration workflow with CLU and QnA | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/orchestration-workflow/tutorials/connect-services | |
| Use Authoring API for custom question answering automation | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/authoring | |
| Call the prebuilt CQA API for ad-hoc answering | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/question-answering/how-to/prebuilt | |
| Call Sentiment and Opinion Mining APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/sentiment-opinion-mining/how-to/call-api | |
| Call Sentiment Analysis via SDK and REST | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/sentiment-opinion-mining/quickstart | |
| Call Azure Language summarization APIs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/summarization/how-to/summarize | |
| Use Azure Summarization via SDK and REST | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/summarization/quickstart | |
| Enable FHIR structuring in health API output | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/concepts/fhir | |
| Interpret relation extraction JSON output | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/concepts/relation-extraction | |
| Call Text Analytics for health API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/how-to/call-api | |
| Call Text Analytics for Health via REST and SDKs | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/text-analytics-for-health/quickstart | |
| Use Azure Language in Power Automate flows | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/tutorials/power-automate |
Deployment
| Topic | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy custom language projects to multiple regions | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/concepts/custom-features/multi-region-deployment | |
| Run key phrase extraction in Docker containers on-premises | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/key-phrase-extraction/how-to/use-containers | |
| Deploy language detection with Docker containers on-premises | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/language-detection/how-to/use-containers | |
| Deploy NER with Docker containers on-premises | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/how-to/use-containers | |
| Deploy Language containers to Azure Kubernetes Service | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/tutorials/use-kubernetes-service |