Hana Text Analytics python interface

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I want to know if it's possible to do sentiment analysis or entity detection or any other capabilities of Hana Text Analytics through the python interface ?

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[dvankempen]

Hi Nazanin,

Certainly, although using SAP Data Intelligence might be a more suitable solution, cf.

• https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/30/how-to-deploy-a-natural-language-processing-model-with-tensorflow-o...

[Former Member]

Hi Denys,

Thanks for your response. I went through the link that you sent me, If I'm not wrong it is more related to training a model from the scratch. I don't have any labeled dataset and I'm looking for a pre-trained model. I'm so new in SPA and I was wondering if there is any programmable API for Hana Text Analytics that I can use to extract sentiments and entities of a bunch of texts that I have. I talked with some of the SPA customer operation team, one of them suggested me this link: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hana-clients-python.html (connect using the SAP HANA Python Interface). I wanted to use the python interface as suggested in the link to extract sentiments and entities of my texts but I was not sure that if it's possible because I couldn't find any related code for that.

Do you have any information or advice for me?

Thank you 🙂

[dvankempen]

Hi Nazanin,

The technology behind Text Analysis used in the SAP HANA platform (on-premises) goes back to BusinessObjects, InXight, and Xerox.

• https://blogs.sap.com/2019/11/02/advanced-analytics-sap-hana-2.0-an-introduction/

Most functionality is no longer included in SAP HANA Cloud

• https://help.sap.com/viewer/3c53bc7b58934a9795b6dd8c7e28cf05/hanacloud/en-US/eeffc091d9704d5bae57b69...

Hence my reference to Data Intelligence for sentiment analysis for a more recent implementation.

The SAP HANA client supports all common languages, ODBC/JDBC, .NET, Go, Python, etc. but these libraries provide database client functionality (connection management, cursor handling, failover, etc.).

In other words, you could use a platform database feature (Text Analysis) for sentiment analysis and entity extraction, and access this in a client application using Python database client libraries, but there is no SAP HANA Text Analysis API as such. For SAP HANA Cloud, there is limited support in this domain.

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