Re: Online Language Identifier

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. :-)

> ... Anyway, try it out!  It's great fun!  Plus, this might help out
> the "What language is this song/text in?" threads.  I hear for real
> languages it's pretty accurate. ...
Well, last time we had a text as an mp3/wma...  Does it eat X-Sampa,
too?? :-)

**Henrik

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