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Re: Online Language Identifier

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 13:32
At 14:13 30/08/2005, you wrote:
>Hi! > >"David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...> writes: > > Radiohead will be pleased to know that Xerox is at it again! For > > those of you who don't check Langmaker.com every two hours, > > a resource was just posted about an online language identifier. > > It can be found here: > > > > http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/tools/guesser- > > ISO-8859-1.en.html > >I think I've seen this kind of thing some years ago on this list. >It's fun! The thing I saw then had a list of languages with >probabilities, so the results were more useful. > > > -Kamakawi: Estonian. (WHOA!!! Way off! This languages is > > almost embarrassingly reminiscent of Hawaiian. Now I'm > > interested in finding out what Estonian is like, though...) > > > > -Epiq: Latvian. (Very interesting. This is the language that > > was inspired by Inuit.) > >Haha! And West Greenlandic is mistaken for Estonian, too. :-) > > >
Khangaþyagon comes out as Turkish. Pete