You use natural language processing to process text from a Microsoft news story. You receive the output shown in the following exhibit. 

Which type of natural languages processing was performed? 

Answer options:

A. entity recognition
B. key phrase extraction
C. sentiment analysis
D. translation

A

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the ability to identify different entities in text and categorize them into pre-defined classes or types such as: person, location, event, product, and organization. In this question, the square brackets indicate the entities such as DateTime, PersonType, Skill. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/cognitive-services/text-analytics/how-tos/text-analytics-how-to-entity-linking?tabs=version-3-preview