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==Free Software==
 
==Free Software==
* TextCat
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* LibTextCat http://software.wise-guys.nl/libtextcat/ C library (BSD license)
** http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/tools/public/language_guesser/textcat/LM - language models for the perl version
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** Interfaces to the C library libtextcat:
** http://olivo.net/software/lc4j/ - a java implementation
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*** http://www.jedi.be/pages/JTextCat/ – a java interface to libtextcat
* Nutch Language Identifier https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/LanguageIdentifier (Apache license)
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*** https://github.com/crodas/PHPTextCat/ – a php module for libtextcat
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*** https://launchpad.net/pylibtextcat python2 / https://github.com/bbqsrc/pylibtextcat/ python3 interface to libtextcat
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** http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/ – original perl TextCat implementation
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*** http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/tools/public/language_guesser/textcat – perl version with more language models, encoding fixes
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** http://olivo.net/software/lc4j/ – a java reimplementation
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** http://thomas.mangin.com//content/texcat-in-python.html – a python implementation by Thomas Mangin
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** http://www.mnogosearch.org/guesser/ – another C reimplementation
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* Languid/GuessLanguage, trigram based
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** http://languid.cantbedone.org/ (dead link) original Perl version by Maciej Ceglowski
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** http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/sonnet-refactoring/common/nlp/guesslanguage.cpp?view=markup C++ version by Jacob R Rideout for KDE
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** https://bitbucket.org/spirit/guess_language Python3 version by Phi-Long Do, supports Python2 via lib3to2
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* Nutch Language Identifier https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/LanguageIdentifier Java (Apache 2.0 license)
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** https://code.google.com/p/language-detection/ source code, data for 53 languages
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** https://code.google.com/p/lang-guess/ lang-guess is a fork of language-detection
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* Compact Language Detector for Javascript https://github.com/jaukia/cld-js (3-clause license)
 
* 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
 
** doesn't seem to include a method to add new languages, the existing ones were presumably generated by Google
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* LID http://www.cavar.me/damir/LID/ Python and Scheme (GPL3)
  
 
==Proprietary==
 
==Proprietary==
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* [[Language Identification (State of the art)]]
 
* [[Language Identification (State of the art)]]
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_detection English Wikipedia on Language detection]
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_detection English Wikipedia on Language detection]
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* [http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/competitors.html TextCat competitors] – list compiled by Gertjan van Noord

Latest revision as of 08:41, 19 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




  • 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


Proprietary

See also