Re: Online Language Identifier

Quoting "David J. Peterson" <dedalvs@...>:

> 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.
Some of mine:

Tairezazh: Four different sentences resulted in two guesses of Hungarian, one of
Latvian, and one of Turkish. Well, I do not know what I should have expected

Meghean: Two sentences resulted in Romanian and Latin. Had sort-of expected
Irish ...

Kalini Sapak: Two sentences yield Slovakian and Indonesian. Given that the
language is supposed to be Arabic without the pharyngeals et sim., this was
unexpected.

Altaii: One sentence returned a guess of Basque. I can see why, tho the language
overall is more similar to Spanish.

                                                        Andreas