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AWS Amazon Comprehend CLI Commands

85 CLI commands available for Amazon Comprehend.

CommandSample
batch-detect-dominant-language

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

batch-detect-entities

Inspects the text of a batch of documents for named entities and returns information about them. For more information about named entities, see Entities in the Comprehend Developer Guide.

batch-detect-key-phrases

Detects the key noun phrases found in a batch of documents.

batch-detect-sentiment

Inspects a batch of documents and returns an inference of the prevailing sentiment, POSITIVE, NEUTRAL, MIXED, or NEGATIVE, in each one.

batch-detect-syntax

Inspects the text of a batch of documents for the syntax and part of speech of the words in the document and returns information about them. For more information, see Syntax in the Comprehend Developer Guide.

batch-detect-targeted-sentiment

Inspects a batch of documents and returns a sentiment analysis for each entity identified in the documents. For more information about targeted sentiment, see Targeted sentiment in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

classify-document

Creates a classification request to analyze a single document in real-time. ClassifyDocument supports the following model types: Custom classifier - a custom model that you have created and trained. For input, you can provide plain text, a single-page document (PDF, Word, or image), or Amazon Text

contains-pii-entities

Analyzes input text for the presence of personally identifiable information (PII) and returns the labels of identified PII entity types such as name, address, bank account number, or phone number.

create-dataset

Creates a dataset to upload training or test data for a model associated with a flywheel. For more information about datasets, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

create-document-classifier

Creates a new document classifier that you can use to categorize documents. To create a classifier, you provide a set of training documents that are labeled with the categories that you want to use. For more information, see Training classifier models in the Comprehend Developer Guide.

create-endpoint

Creates a model-specific endpoint for synchronous inference for a previously trained custom model For information about endpoints, see Managing endpoints.

create-entity-recognizer

Creates an entity recognizer using submitted files. After your CreateEntityRecognizer request is submitted, you can check job status using the DescribeEntityRecognizer API.

create-flywheel

A flywheel is an Amazon Web Services resource that orchestrates the ongoing training of a model for custom classification or custom entity recognition. You can create a flywheel to start with an existing trained model, or Comprehend can create and train a new model. When you create the flywheel, Com

delete-document-classifier

Deletes a previously created document classifier Only those classifiers that are in terminated states (IN_ERROR, TRAINED) will be deleted. If an active inference job is using the model, a ResourceInUseException will be returned. This is an asynchronous action that puts the classifier into a DELETING

delete-endpoint

Deletes a model-specific endpoint for a previously-trained custom model. All endpoints must be deleted in order for the model to be deleted. For information about endpoints, see Managing endpoints.

delete-entity-recognizer

Deletes an entity recognizer. Only those recognizers that are in terminated states (IN_ERROR, TRAINED) will be deleted. If an active inference job is using the model, a ResourceInUseException will be returned. This is an asynchronous action that puts the recognizer into a DELETING state, and it is t

delete-flywheel

Deletes a flywheel. When you delete the flywheel, Amazon Comprehend does not delete the data lake or the model associated with the flywheel. For more information about flywheels, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

delete-resource-policy

Deletes a resource-based policy that is attached to a custom model.

describe-dataset

Returns information about the dataset that you specify. For more information about datasets, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

describe-document-classification-job

Gets the properties associated with a document classification job. Use this operation to get the status of a classification job.

describe-document-classifier

Gets the properties associated with a document classifier.

describe-dominant-language-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with a dominant language detection job. Use this operation to get the status of a detection job.

describe-endpoint

Gets the properties associated with a specific endpoint. Use this operation to get the status of an endpoint. For information about endpoints, see Managing endpoints.

describe-entities-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with an entities detection job. Use this operation to get the status of a detection job.

describe-entity-recognizer

Provides details about an entity recognizer including status, S3 buckets containing training data, recognizer metadata, metrics, and so on.

describe-events-detection-job

Gets the status and details of an events detection job.

describe-flywheel

Provides configuration information about the flywheel. For more information about flywheels, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

describe-flywheel-iteration

Retrieve the configuration properties of a flywheel iteration. For more information about flywheels, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

describe-key-phrases-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with a key phrases detection job. Use this operation to get the status of a detection job.

describe-pii-entities-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with a PII entities detection job. For example, you can use this operation to get the job status.

describe-resource-policy

Gets the details of a resource-based policy that is attached to a custom model, including the JSON body of the policy.

describe-sentiment-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with a sentiment detection job. Use this operation to get the status of a detection job.

describe-targeted-sentiment-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with a targeted sentiment detection job. Use this operation to get the status of the job.

describe-topics-detection-job

Gets the properties associated with a topic detection job. Use this operation to get the status of a detection job.

detect-dominant-language

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

detect-entities

Detects named entities in input text when you use the pre-trained model. Detects custom entities if you have a custom entity recognition model. When detecting named entities using the pre-trained model, use plain text as the input. For more information about named entities, see Entities in the Com

detect-key-phrases

Detects the key noun phrases found in the text.

detect-pii-entities

Inspects the input text for entities that contain personally identifiable information (PII) and returns information about them.

detect-sentiment

Inspects text and returns an inference of the prevailing sentiment (POSITIVE, NEUTRAL, MIXED, or NEGATIVE).

detect-syntax

Inspects text for syntax and the part of speech of words in the document. For more information, see Syntax in the Comprehend Developer Guide.

detect-targeted-sentiment

Inspects the input text and returns a sentiment analysis for each entity identified in the text. For more information about targeted sentiment, see Targeted sentiment in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

detect-toxic-content

Performs toxicity analysis on the list of text strings that you provide as input. The API response contains a results list that matches the size of the input list. For more information about toxicity detection, see Toxicity detection in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

import-model

Creates a new custom model that replicates a source custom model that you import. The source model can be in your Amazon Web Services account or another one. If the source model is in another Amazon Web Services account, then it must have a resource-based policy that authorizes you to import it. The

list-datasets

List the datasets that you have configured in this Region. For more information about datasets, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

list-document-classification-jobs

Gets a list of the documentation classification jobs that you have submitted.

list-document-classifier-summaries

Gets a list of summaries of the document classifiers that you have created

list-document-classifiers

Gets a list of the document classifiers that you have created.

list-dominant-language-detection-jobs

Gets a list of the dominant language detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-endpoints

Gets a list of all existing endpoints that you've created. For information about endpoints, see Managing endpoints.

list-entities-detection-jobs

Gets a list of the entity detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-entity-recognizer-summaries

Gets a list of summaries for the entity recognizers that you have created.

list-entity-recognizers

Gets a list of the properties of all entity recognizers that you created, including recognizers currently in training. Allows you to filter the list of recognizers based on criteria such as status and submission time. This call returns up to 500 entity recognizers in the list, with a default number

list-events-detection-jobs

Gets a list of the events detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-flywheel-iteration-history

Information about the history of a flywheel iteration. For more information about flywheels, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

list-flywheels

Gets a list of the flywheels that you have created.

list-key-phrases-detection-jobs

Get a list of key phrase detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-pii-entities-detection-jobs

Gets a list of the PII entity detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-sentiment-detection-jobs

Gets a list of sentiment detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-tags-for-resource

Lists all tags associated with a given Amazon Comprehend resource.

list-targeted-sentiment-detection-jobs

Gets a list of targeted sentiment detection jobs that you have submitted.

list-topics-detection-jobs

Gets a list of the topic detection jobs that you have submitted.

put-resource-policy

Attaches a resource-based policy to a custom model. You can use this policy to authorize an entity in another Amazon Web Services account to import the custom model, which replicates it in Amazon Comprehend in their account.

start-document-classification-job

Starts an asynchronous document classification job using a custom classification model. Use the DescribeDocumentClassificationJob operation to track the progress of the job.

start-dominant-language-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous dominant language detection job for a collection of documents. Use the operation to track the status of a job.

start-entities-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous entity detection job for a collection of documents. Use the operation to track the status of a job. This API can be used for either standard entity detection or custom entity recognition. In order to be used for custom entity recognition, the optional EntityRecognizerArn must

start-events-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous event detection job for a collection of documents.

start-flywheel-iteration

Start the flywheel iteration.This operation uses any new datasets to train a new model version. For more information about flywheels, see Flywheel overview in the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.

start-key-phrases-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous key phrase detection job for a collection of documents. Use the operation to track the status of a job.

start-pii-entities-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous PII entity detection job for a collection of documents.

start-sentiment-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous sentiment detection job for a collection of documents. Use the operation to track the status of a job.

start-targeted-sentiment-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous targeted sentiment detection job for a collection of documents. Use the DescribeTargetedSentimentDetectionJob operation to track the status of a job.

start-topics-detection-job

Starts an asynchronous topic detection job. Use the DescribeTopicDetectionJob operation to track the status of a job.

stop-dominant-language-detection-job

Stops a dominant language detection job in progress. If the job state is IN_PROGRESS the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the COMPLETED state; otherwise the job is stopped and put into the STOPPED state

stop-entities-detection-job

Stops an entities detection job in progress. If the job state is IN_PROGRESS the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the COMPLETED state; otherwise the job is stopped and put into the STOPPED state. If the

stop-events-detection-job

Stops an events detection job in progress.

stop-key-phrases-detection-job

Stops a key phrases detection job in progress. If the job state is IN_PROGRESS the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the COMPLETED state; otherwise the job is stopped and put into the STOPPED state. If t

stop-pii-entities-detection-job

Stops a PII entities detection job in progress.

stop-sentiment-detection-job

Stops a sentiment detection job in progress. If the job state is IN_PROGRESS, the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the COMPLETED state; otherwise the job is be stopped and put into the STOPPED state. If

stop-targeted-sentiment-detection-job

Stops a targeted sentiment detection job in progress. If the job state is IN_PROGRESS, the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the COMPLETED state; otherwise the job is be stopped and put into the STOPPED

stop-training-document-classifier

Stops a document classifier training job while in progress. If the training job state is TRAINING, the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the training job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the TRAINED; otherwise the training job is stopped and pu

stop-training-entity-recognizer

Stops an entity recognizer training job while in progress. If the training job state is TRAINING, the job is marked for termination and put into the STOP_REQUESTED state. If the training job completes before it can be stopped, it is put into the TRAINED; otherwise the training job is stopped and put

tag-resource

Associates a specific tag with an Amazon Comprehend resource. A tag is a key-value pair that adds as a metadata to a resource used by Amazon Comprehend. For example, a tag with "Sales" as the key might be added to a resource to indicate its use by the sales department.

untag-resource

Removes a specific tag associated with an Amazon Comprehend resource.

update-endpoint

Updates information about the specified endpoint. For information about endpoints, see Managing endpoints.

update-flywheel

Update the configuration information for an existing flywheel.

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