overriding-language-detection.md

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years 2015, 2017	2017-07-21

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Overriding language detection

To override automatic language detection in /analyze requests, specify a language code in the language attribute of the parameters JSON object.

Example parameters.json file

{
  "text": "...X, Y, Z, now I know my A, B, Cs",
  "features": {
    "semantic_roles": {}
  },
  "language": "en"
}

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Example curl request

curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-u "{username}":"{password}" \
-d @parameters.json \
"https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/natural-language-understanding/api/v1/analyze?version=2017-02-27"

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