What's changed: Added per-section figures (cert-figure-retrofit). New AI-103 Chapter 6 (Azure Content Understanding = multimodal structured extraction/analyzer & schema/prebuilt vs custom/build flow, generative-prompt extraction of entities/topics/summaries = structured output/grounding & evaluation/structured vs schema extraction)
6.2Extracting Entities, Topics, and Summaries with Generative Prompting
Understand extracting entities, topics, and summaries flexibly via prompts to a generative model—receiving structured output, grounding, evaluation, and when to use this vs prebuilt/custom.
Beyond Content Understanding, AI-103’s information-extraction domain also covers flexible extraction via generative prompting. Instruct a generative model to "extract entities, main topics, and a summary from this document," and receive it as structured output (a JSON schema, from Chapter 2) so the app can consume extraction not bound to predefined categories. It excels on long or unstructured content but risks hallucination, so pair it with grounding (base it on the source document) and evaluation.
When to use which: (1) structured, repetitive fields → Content Understanding (schema extraction) or prebuilt/custom. (2) unstructured, flexible, summarization or semantic extraction → generative prompting + structured output. (3) Choose by accuracy/cost/consistency needs. In practice you often combine them (extract → generate a summary, etc.).
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