Create projects in multiple languages

In this tutorial, you learn how to:

• Create a project that supports English
• Create a project that supports German

This tutorial will walk through the process of creating projects in multiple languages. We use the Surface Pen FAQ URL to create projects in German and English. We then deploy the project and use the custom question answering REST API to query and get answers to FAQs in the desired language.

Create project in German

To be able to create a project in more than one language, the multiple language setting must be set at the creation of the first project that is associated with the language resource.

1. From the Language Studio home page, select open custom question answering. Select Create new project > I want to select the language when I create a project in this resource > Next.

2. Fill out enter basic information page and select Next > Create project.

   Setting	Value
   Name	Unique name for your project
   Description	Unique description to help identify the project
   Source language	For this tutorial, select German
   Default answer	Default answer when no answer is returned

   

3. Add source > URLs > Add url > Add all.

   Setting	Value
   Url Name	Surface Pen German
   URL	https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/surface/how-to-use-your-surface-pen-8a403519-cd1f-15b2-c9df-faa5aa924e98
   Classify file structure	Auto-detect

   Custom question answering reads the document and extracts question answer pairs from the source URL to create the project in the German language. If you select the link to the source, the project page opens where we can edit the contents.

   

Create project in English

We now repeat the above steps from before but this time select English and provide an English URL as a source.

1. From the Language Studio open the custom question answering page > Create new project.

2. Fill out enter basic information page and select Next > Create project.

   Setting	Value
   Name	Unique name for your project
   Description	Unique description to help identify the project
   Source language	For this tutorial, select English
   Default answer	Default answer when no answer is returned

3. Add source > URLs > Add url > Add all.

   Setting	Value
   Url Name	Surface Pen German
   URL	https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/how-to-use-your-surface-pen-8a403519-cd1f-15b2-c9df-faa5aa924e98
   Classify file structure	Auto-detect

Deploy and query project

We are now ready to deploy the two project and query them in the desired language using the custom question answering REST API. Once a project is deployed, the following page is shown which provides details to query the project.

The language for the incoming user query can be detected with the Language Detection API and the user can call the appropriate endpoint and project depending on the detected language.