Re: Online Language Identifier

On 8/30/05, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:

> 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:
I tried two different sentences of gjax-zym-byn
(in Unicode); one was identified as Irish_utf8 and the
other as Swahili.  The same sentence in ASCII
encoding was identified as Maltese.

A few extemporaneous words of Toki Pona
were identified as Esperanto_iso3.

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Jim Henry
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