language-support.md

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years 2015, 2023	2023-03-09	natural-language-understanding

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Language support

{: #language-support}

{{site.data.keyword.nlushort}} supports a variety of languages depending on which features you analyze. Currently, English is the only language that is supported across all features. The rest of the languages have limited support. To jump to the list of features that are compatible with a language, click the language in the following list.

• Arabic
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Norwegian (Bokmal)
• Norwegian (Nyorsk)
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Language support might be different if you are a {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_dedicated}} customer. If you are using {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_dedicated}}, check with your IBM salesperson to confirm which languages are supported in your environment. {: tip}

Arabic

{: #arabic}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Chinese (Simplified)

{: #chinese-simplified}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*	X
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations		X
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Czech

{: #czech}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Danish

{: #danish}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Dutch

{: #dutch}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*	X
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations		X
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

English

{: #english}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X	X (Beta)
Classifications	X*	X
Concepts	X
Emotion	X
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles	X
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Indicates support for tone analysis; see Tone analytics (Classifications) for more information.

Finnish

{: #finnish}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

French

{: #french}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications	X*	X
Concepts	X
Emotion	X
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Indicates support for tone analysis; see Tone analytics (Classifications) for more information.

German

{: #german}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts	X
Emotion
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles	X
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

Hebrew

{: #hebrew}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Hindi

{: #hindi}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Italian

{: #italian}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts	X
Emotion
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

Japanese

{: #japanese}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts	X
Emotion
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles	X
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

Korean

{: #korean}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts	X
Emotion
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles	X
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

Norwegian

{: #norwegian}

Please note that {{site.data.keyword.nlushort}} considers Norwegian (standard language code no) as equivalent to Norwegian-Bokmal (standard language code nb), and uses the same Norwegian-Bokmal model for both language codes. {: note}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Norwegian (Bokmal)

{: #norwegian-bokmal}

Please note that {{site.data.keyword.nlushort}} considers Norwegian (standard language code no) as equivalent to Norwegian-Bokmal (standard language code nb), and uses the same Norwegian-Bokmal model for both language codes. {: note}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Norwegian (Nyorsk)

{: #norwegian-nyorsk}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Polish

{: #polish}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Portuguese

{: #portuguese}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts	X
Emotion
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

Romanian

{: #romanian}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Russian

{: #russian}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Slovak

{: #slovak}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Spanish

{: #spanish}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories	X
Classifications		X
Concepts	X
Emotion
Entities	X	X
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations	X	X
Semantic roles	X
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

Swedish

{: #swedish}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata	X
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.

Turkish

{: #turkish}

Feature	Standard Support	Custom model support
Categories
Classifications
Concepts
Emotion
Entities	X*
Keywords	X
Metadata
Relations
Semantic roles
Sentiment	X
Syntax	X

* Relevance ranking is not supported.