Re: Online Language Identifier

David J. Peterson wrote:
> 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
>
> Basically it identifies the language that you put into the text
> field (a sentence of five words or more).  It was reviewed on the
> blog Tenser Said the Tensor.  The author put in Klingon, Quenya
> and Sindarin.  Klingon apparently was fairly consistently identified
> as Maltese.  I tried a couple of mine.  The results:
>
[snip results]

Using two verses from the Suvile Babel text (see my sig), I got Romanian
and Esperanto (of all things). Strangely, the sentence with more þ's and
ð's was the Esperanto one. If I ever actually *write* anything in
Tutèlya or Andan, I'll try to put them in.

--
Michael Potter
Idzon Conworld: http://www.potterpcs.net/idzon