Amazon Comprehend

2023/11/09 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for toxicity detection and prompt safety classification.

2023/04/19 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   This release supports native document models for custom classification, in addition to plain-text models. You train native document models using documents (PDF, Word, images) in their native format.

2023/03/24 - 8 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds a new field (FlywheelArn) to the EntitiesDetectionJobProperties object. The FlywheelArn field is returned in the DescribeEntitiesDetectionJob and ListEntitiesDetectionJobs responses when the EntitiesDetection job is started with a FlywheelArn instead of an EntityRecognizerArn .

2023/02/28 - 11 new 13 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports flywheels to help you train and manage new model versions for custom models.

2022/12/01 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Comprehend now supports semi-structured documents (such as PDF files or image files) as inputs for custom analysis using the synchronous APIs (ClassifyDocument and DetectEntities).

2022/09/21 - 2 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports synchronous mode for targeted sentiment API operations.

2022/05/20 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   Comprehend releases 14 new entity types for DetectPiiEntities and ContainsPiiEntities APIs.

2022/03/09 - 4 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports extracting the sentiment associated with entities such as brands, products and services from text documents.

2022/02/02 - 4 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports sharing and importing custom trained models from one AWS account to another within the same region.

2021/09/21 - 2 new 9 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports versioning of custom models, improved training with ONE_DOC_PER_FILE text documents for custom entity recognition, ability to provide specific test sets during training, and live migration to new model endpoints.

2021/09/14 - 30 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now allows you to train and run PDF and Word documents for custom entity recognition. With PDF and Word formats, you can extract information from documents containing headers, lists and tables.

2021/08/20 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   Add tagging support for Comprehend async inference job.

2021/03/31 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Support for customer managed KMS encryption of Comprehend custom models

2021/03/11 - 1 new api methods

Changes   ContainsPiiEntities API analyzes the input text for the presence of personally identifiable information(PII) and returns the labels of identified PII entity types such as name, address etc.

2020/11/24 - 4 new api methods

Changes   Support Comprehend events detection APIs

2020/09/22 - 6 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend integrates with Amazon SageMaker GroundTruth to allow its customers to annotate their datasets using GroundTruth and train their models using Comprehend Custom APIs.

2020/09/17 - 5 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports detecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) entities in a document.

2020/07/09 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   AWS Comprehend now supports Real-time Analysis with Custom Entity Recognition.

2020/01/06 - 4 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports Multilabel document classification

2019/11/25 - 6 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports real-time analysis with Custom Classification

2019/11/07 - 21 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds new languages (ar, hi, ko, ja, zh, zh-TW) for Amazon Comprehend's DetectSentiment, DetectEntities, DetectKeyPhrases, BatchDetectSentiment, BatchDetectEntities and BatchDetectKeyPhrases APIs

2019/07/18 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend now supports multiple entities for custom entity recognition

2019/05/14 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   With this release AWS Comprehend now supports Virtual Private Cloud for Asynchronous Batch Processing jobs

2019/04/05 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   With this release AWS Comprehend provides confusion matrix for custom document classifier.

2019/04/03 - 3 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   With this release AWS Comprehend adds tagging support for document-classifiers and entity-recognizers.

2019/03/29 - 24 updated api methods

Changes   With this release AWS Comprehend supports encryption of output results of analysis jobs and volume data on the storage volume attached to the compute instance that processes the analysis job.

2018/12/20 - 2 new 4 updated api methods

Changes   This SDK release adds functionality to stop training Custom Document Classifier or Custom Entity Recognizer in Amazon Comprehend.

2018/11/16 - 4 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend Custom Entities automatically trains entity recognition models using your entities and noun-based phrases.

2018/11/16 - 7 new 2 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend Custom Classification automatically trains classification models using your text and custom labels.

2018/10/10 - 17 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds French, Italian, German and Portuguese language support for all existing synchronous and asynchronous APIs

2018/07/17 - 2 new 8 updated api methods

Changes   This release gives customers the ability to tokenize (find word boundaries) text and for each word provide a label for the part of speech, using the DetectSyntax operation. This API is useful to analyze text for specific conditions like for example finding nouns and the correlating adjectives to understand customer feedback.

2018/06/27 - 16 new 6 updated api methods

Changes   This release gives customers the option to batch process a set of documents stored within an S3 bucket in addition to the existing synchronous nature of the current Comprehend API.

2017/11/29 - 11 new api methods

Changes   Amazon Comprehend is an AWS service for gaining insight into the content of text and documents . It develops insights by recognizing the entities, key phrases, language, sentiments, and other common elements in a document. For more information, go to the Amazon Comprehend product page. To get started, see the Amazon Comprehend Developer Guide.