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Call or Deploy translate ?

✅ You can call this translate bigfunction directly from your Google Cloud Project (no install required).

  • This translate function is deployed in bigfunctions GCP project in 39 datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions. You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets (otherwise you may have a function not found error).
  • Function is public, so it can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
  • You may prefer to deploy the BigFunction in your own project if you want to build and manage your own catalog of functions. This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs). Discover the framework

Public BigFunctions Datasets:

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...

Description

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translate(text, target_language)

Description

Translate text into target_language

Examples

select bigfunctions.eu.translate("Salut 👋 Florian. Merci d'avoir contribué !", 'en')
select bigfunctions.us.translate("Salut 👋 Florian. Merci d'avoir contribué !", 'en')
select bigfunctions.europe_west1.translate("Salut 👋 Florian. Merci d'avoir contribué !", 'en')
+-------------------------------------------+
| translated_text                           |
+-------------------------------------------+
| Hello 👋 Florian. Thanks for contributing! |
+-------------------------------------------+

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Use cases

A company has a database of customer reviews in various languages. They want to analyze the sentiment of these reviews but their sentiment analysis tool only works on English text. They can use the translate function within BigQuery to translate all reviews into English before processing them with the sentiment analysis tool.

SELECT review_id, sentiment(bigfunctions.<region>.translate(review_text, 'en')) AS sentiment_score
FROM `project.dataset.reviews`;

Replacing <region> with the appropriate BigQuery region for their dataset (e.g., us, eu, europe-west1). This query translates each review_text into English and then calculates the sentiment score using the hypothetical sentiment function. This allows the company to perform sentiment analysis on all reviews regardless of the original language.

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