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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate AI-102 · Domain 5: Implement natural language processing solutions

Conversational language understanding (CLU): intents, entities, utterances, training and deployment

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Conversational language understanding (CLU) is the Azure AI Language feature that interprets what a user wants from a natural language command or question. It replaced the older Language Understanding service (LUIS), which has been retired. You build a CLU project in Language Studio (or the Foundry portal) or through the authoring REST API, train a custom model on your examples, deploy it and query it from apps and bots.

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