Conversational language understanding: a custom Azure Language feature for chatbots that works out the intent behind an utterance and pulls out its entities; it retires on 31 March 2029.
Also called conversational language understanding.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains CLU in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- intent
A rule in VCF Operations for networks stating how the network ought to behave (say, MTU consistency, reachability or segmentation), regularly tested against a model of everything the network could do. Custom or system-supplied.
Related terms
- Intent recognition (Speech)
Retired on 30 September 2025, this Speech SDK feature mapped spoken utterances to intents; use speech to text and then CLU or an Azure OpenAI model instead.
- LUIS
Language Understanding, a former service for recognising intents. Conversational language understanding (CLU) replaced it, and it has now been retired completely.