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*** http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/tools/public/language_guesser/textcat – perl version with more language models, encoding fixes | *** http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/tools/public/language_guesser/textcat – perl version with more language models, encoding fixes | ||
** http://olivo.net/software/lc4j/ – a java reimplementation | ** http://olivo.net/software/lc4j/ – a java reimplementation | ||
| − | + | ** http://thomas.mangin.com//content/texcat-in-python.html – a python implementation by Thomas Mangin | |
| + | ** http://www.mnogosearch.org/guesser/ – another C reimplementation | ||
* Nutch Language Identifier https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/LanguageIdentifier Java (Apache 2.0 license) | * Nutch Language Identifier https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/LanguageIdentifier Java (Apache 2.0 license) | ||
Revision as of 03:13, 6 December 2012
A listing of language identification tools. Language identification can mean both identifiying text type (e.g. news vs literature) and language (e.g. English vs Frisian vs Dutch).
Most of these tools require training on a big corpus (see List of resources by language for corpora per language), but many come with some prebuilt language models.
Free Software
- LibTextCat http://software.wise-guys.nl/libtextcat/ C library (BSD license)
- Interfaces to the C library libtextcat:
- http://www.jedi.be/pages/JTextCat/ – a java interface to libtextcat
- https://github.com/crodas/PHPTextCat/ – a php module for libtextcat
- https://launchpad.net/pylibtextcat python2 / https://github.com/bbqsrc/pylibtextcat/ python3 interface to libtextcat
- http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/ – original perl TextCat implementation
- http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/tools/public/language_guesser/textcat – perl version with more language models, encoding fixes
- http://olivo.net/software/lc4j/ – a java reimplementation
- http://thomas.mangin.com//content/texcat-in-python.html – a python implementation by Thomas Mangin
- http://www.mnogosearch.org/guesser/ – another C reimplementation
- Interfaces to the C library libtextcat:
- Nutch Language Identifier https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/LanguageIdentifier Java (Apache 2.0 license)
- https://code.google.com/p/language-detection/ source code, data for 53 languages
- https://code.google.com/p/lang-guess/ lang-guess is a fork of language-detection
- Compact Language Detector for Javascript https://github.com/jaukia/cld-js (3-clause license)
- doesn't seem to include a method to add new languages, the existing ones were presumably generated by Google
- LID http://www.cavar.me/damir/LID/ Python and Scheme (GPL3)
Proprietary
- Google Language Identification API
- Lingua-Systems lid http://www.lingua-systems.com/language-identifier/
See also
- Language Identification (State of the art)
- English Wikipedia on Language detection
- TextCat competitors – list compiled by Gertjan van Noord