Language identification

Language identification or language recognition is the process of identifying what language a text (document/paragraph/sentence/word/…) is in.

Apertium-apy uses the CLD2 library for language identification (optionally it can use coverage of analysers, but this is really slow)

See also

• Apertium-apy/Language identification for some accuracy experiments of CLD2
• http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/ the original TextCat library (perl, there's also a C port)
  • https://github.com/unhammer/gt-CorpusTools/blob/master/corpustools/text_cat.py python2 reimplementation of textcat
• http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc37/abstracts/Szymanski_PLC37_CT.pdf for identifying parallel text in another language within the same document.
• https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py Naïve Bayes method implemented in Python, comes with lots of pre-trained models
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_%28WMF%29/Notes/Balanced_Language_Identification_Evaluation_Set_for_Queries / https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_%28WMF%29/Notes/Language_Detection_with_TextCat#Query_Data_Collection – modifies the textcat method for working on very short strings