Before you can use AutoML Natural Language, you must enable it for your project. Open the AutoML Natural Language UI and select the project. The application walks you through the necessary steps, which are also described below.
Set up your project
- Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
- Install the Google Cloud CLI.
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To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
gcloud init
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Create or select a Google Cloud project.
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Create a Google Cloud project:
gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID
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Select the Google Cloud project that you created:
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
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Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project. Learn how to check if billing is enabled on a project.
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Enable the AutoML and Cloud Storage APIs:
gcloud services enable storage-component.googleapis.com
automl.googleapis.com storage-api.googleapis.com - Install the Google Cloud CLI.
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To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
gcloud init
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Create or select a Google Cloud project.
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Create a Google Cloud project:
gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID
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Select the Google Cloud project that you created:
gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
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Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project. Learn how to check if billing is enabled on a project.
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Enable the AutoML and Cloud Storage APIs:
gcloud services enable storage-component.googleapis.com
automl.googleapis.com storage-api.googleapis.com - Set the
PROJECT_ID
environment variable to your Project ID.export PROJECT_ID=PROJECT_ID
The AutoML API calls and resource names include your Project ID in them. ThePROJECT_ID
environment variable provides a convenient way to specify the ID.
Create a Cloud Storage bucket
Create a Cloud Storage bucket for
AutoML Natural Language tasks such as
importing training data. The bucket must be in either the us-central1
region
or eu
multi-region location.
Bucket requirements for us-central1
:
- Location type:
Region
- Location:
us-central1
- Storage class:
Standard
(sometimes displayed in the Cloud Storage browser asRegional
)
Bucket requirements for eu
:
- Location type:
Multi-region
- Location:
eu
- Storage class:
Standard
(sometimes displayed in the Cloud Storage browser asMulti-Regional
)