Prebuilt Azure Language capability that finds entities such as Person, PhoneNumber, Email and Address and gives back the text with them masked. It is not a tool for moderating harmful content.
Also called personally identifiable information detection.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains PII detection in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Capability
Something that a person, organisation or system is able to do.
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
Related terms
- Azure Language in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool offering natural language processing over existing text, such as sentiment, key phrase extraction, entity recognition, PII detection, summarisation and language detection. Prebuilt features work without training, and nothing new is generated.