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How to create projects in Conversational Language Understanding	Azure AI services	Use this article to learn how to create projects in Conversational Language Understanding.	jboback	nitinme	azure-ai-language	how-to	12/19/2023	jboback	language-service-clu

How to create a CLU project

Use this article to learn how to set up these requirements and create a project.

Prerequisites

Before you start using CLU, you will need several things:

An Azure subscription - Create one for free.
An Azure AI Language resource

Create a Language resource

Before you start using CLU, you will need an Azure AI Language resource.

Note

You need to have an owner role assigned on the resource group to create a Language resource.

[!INCLUDE create a new resource from the Azure portal]

[!INCLUDE create a new resource from Language Studio]

Sign in to Language Studio

[!INCLUDE Sign in to Language studio]

Create a conversation project

Once you have a Language resource created, create a Conversational Language Understanding project.

Import project

You can export a Conversational Language Understanding project as a JSON file at any time by going to the conversation projects page, selecting a project, and from the top menu, clicking on Export.

:::image type="content" source="../media/export.png" alt-text="A screenshot showing the Conversational Language Understanding export button." lightbox="../media/export.png":::

That project can be reimported as a new project. If you import a project with the exact same name, it replaces the project's data with the newly imported project's data.

If you have an existing LUIS application, you can import the LUIS application JSON to Conversational Language Understanding directly, and it will create a Conversation project with all the pieces that are currently available: Intents, ML entities, and utterances. See the LUIS migration article for more information.

To import a project, select the arrow button next to Create a new project and select Import, then select the LUIS or Conversational Language Understanding JSON file.

:::image type="content" source="../media/import.png" alt-text="A screenshot showing the Conversational Language Understanding import button." lightbox="../media/import.png":::

REST APIs

You can import a CLU JSON into the service

[!INCLUDE Import project]

Export project

Language Studio

You can export a Conversational Language Understanding project as a JSON file at any time by going to the conversation projects page, selecting a project, and pressing Export.