Information extraction

Information extraction is the AI workload that pulls structured data — fields, entities, tables — out of unstructured documents and media. AI-901 covers implementing it with Content Understanding.

All AI-901 Terms

Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry is Microsoft's unified platform for building, deploying, and managing generative AI apps and agents on Azure.

Foundry SDK

The Foundry SDK is the client library used to build applications that call models and agents deployed in Microsoft Foundry.

Generative AI

Generative AI is a class of AI that creates new content — text, images, code, or audio — from patterns learned during training.

Agent

An agent is an AI solution that uses a model plus instructions, tools, and knowledge to accomplish tasks rather than answer a single prompt.

Prompt

A prompt is the system or user instruction given to a generative model to shape its response.

Responsible AI

Responsible AI is Microsoft's framework of principles — fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability — for building trustworthy AI.

Multimodal model

A multimodal model is a model that accepts and reasons over more than one input type, such as text plus images or audio.

Computer vision

Computer vision is the AI field concerned with interpreting images and video — classification, object detection, and OCR — which is distinct from image generation.

Text analysis

Text analysis is the set of techniques for extracting meaning from text, including keyword extraction, entity detection, sentiment analysis, and summarization.

Sentiment analysis

Sentiment analysis is a text-analysis technique that determines the emotional tone — positive, negative, or neutral — of a piece of text.

Entity detection

Entity detection is a text-analysis technique that identifies and categorizes named items such as people, places, and organizations in text.

Content Understanding

Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools is a service that extracts structured information from documents, images, audio, and video.

Information extraction

Information extraction is the AI workload that pulls structured data — fields, entities, tables — out of unstructured documents and media.

Speech recognition

Speech recognition is the AI capability that converts spoken audio into text (speech-to-text); its counterpart, speech synthesis, converts text into spoken audio.