overriding-language-detection.md

copyright	years 2015, 2020
lastupdated	2020-02-24
subcollection	natural-language-understanding

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Overriding language detection

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To override automatic language detection in /analyze requests, specify a language code in the language attribute of the parameters JSON object.

Example parameters.json file

{
  "text": "...X, Y, Z, now I know my A, B, Cs",
  "features": {
    "semantic_roles": {}
  },
  "language": "en"
}

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Example curl request

curl --user "apikey:{apikey}" \
"{url}/v1/analyze?version=2018-09-21" \
--request POST \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data @parameters.json

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