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Starts an asynchronous entity detection job for a collection of documents. Use the operation to track the status of a job.

This API can be used for either standard entity detection or custom entity recognition. In order to be used for custom entity recognition, the optional EntityRecognizerArn must be used in order to provide access to the recognizer being used to detect the custom entity.

post/#X-Amz-Target=Comprehend_20171127.StartEntitiesDetectionJob

Headers

X-Amz-Target'Comprehend_20171127.StartEntitiesDetectionJob' required

Request body

DataAccessRoleArnstring required

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role that grants Amazon Comprehend read access to your input data. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/comprehend/latest/dg/security_iam_id-based-policy-examples.html#auth-role-permissions">Role-based permissions</a>.

JobNamestring

The identifier of the job.

EntityRecognizerArnstring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the specific entity recognizer to be used by the <code>StartEntitiesDetectionJob</code>. This ARN is optional and is only used for a custom entity recognition job.

LanguageCode'en' | 'es' | 'fr' | 'de' | 'it' | 'pt' | 'ar' | 'hi' | 'ja' | 'ko' | 'zh' | 'zh-TW' required

The language of the input documents. All documents must be in the same language. You can specify any of the languages supported by Amazon Comprehend. If custom entities recognition is used, this parameter is ignored and the language used for training the model is used instead.

ClientRequestTokenstring

A unique identifier for the request. If you don't set the client request token, Amazon Comprehend generates one.

VolumeKmsKeyIdstring
<p>ID for the Amazon Web Services Key Management Service (KMS) key that Amazon Comprehend uses to encrypt data on the storage volume attached to the ML compute instance(s) that process the analysis job. The VolumeKmsKeyId can be either of the following formats:</p> <ul> <li> <p>KMS Key ID: <code>"1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab"</code> </p> </li> <li> <p>Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a KMS Key: <code>"arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab"</code> </p> </li> </ul>
FlywheelArnstring

The Amazon Resource Number (ARN) of the flywheel associated with the model to use.

Response

Success

JobIdstring

The identifier generated for the job. To get the status of job, use this identifier with the operation.

JobArnstring
<p>The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the entities detection job. It is a unique, fully qualified identifier for the job. It includes the Amazon Web Services account, Amazon Web Services Region, and the job ID. The format of the ARN is as follows:</p> <p> <code>arn:&lt;partition&gt;:comprehend:&lt;region&gt;:&lt;account-id&gt;:entities-detection-job/&lt;job-id&gt;</code> </p> <p>The following is an example job ARN:</p> <p> <code>arn:aws:comprehend:us-west-2:111122223333:entities-detection-job/1234abcd12ab34cd56ef1234567890ab</code> </p>
JobStatus'SUBMITTED' | 'IN_PROGRESS' | 'COMPLETED' | 'FAILED' | 'STOP_REQUESTED' | 'STOPPED'
<p>The status of the job. </p> <ul> <li> <p>SUBMITTED - The job has been received and is queued for processing.</p> </li> <li> <p>IN_PROGRESS - Amazon Comprehend is processing the job.</p> </li> <li> <p>COMPLETED - The job was successfully completed and the output is available.</p> </li> <li> <p>FAILED - The job did not complete. To get details, use the operation.</p> </li> <li> <p>STOP_REQUESTED - Amazon Comprehend has received a stop request for the job and is processing the request.</p> </li> <li> <p>STOPPED - The job was successfully stopped without completing.</p> </li> </ul>
EntityRecognizerArnstring

The ARN of the custom entity recognition model.