Named Entity Recognition (NER) language support

Use this article to learn which natural languages are supported by the NER feature of Azure Cognitive Service for Language.

Note

  • Languages are added as new model versions are released.
  • Only "Person", "Location" and "Organization" entities are returned for languages marked with *.
  • The current model version for NER is 2021-06-01.

NER language support

Language Language code Starting with model version: Notes
Arabic* ar 2019-10-01
Chinese-Simplified zh-hans 2021-01-15 zh also accepted
Chinese-Traditional* zh-hant 2019-10-01
Czech* cs 2019-10-01
Danish* da 2019-10-01
Dutch* nl 2019-10-01
English en 2019-10-01
Finnish* fi 2019-10-01
French fr 2021-01-15
German de 2021-01-15
Hungarian* hu 2019-10-01
Italian it 2021-01-15
Japanese ja 2021-01-15
Korean ko 2021-01-15
Norwegian (Bokmål)* no 2019-10-01 nb also accepted
Polish* pl 2019-10-01
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR 2021-01-15
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT 2021-01-15 pt also accepted
Russian* ru 2019-10-01
Spanish es 2020-04-01
Swedish* sv 2019-10-01
Turkish* tr 2019-10-01

Next steps

PII feature overview