Re: Online Language Identifier

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:50:14 -0700, "David J. Peterson"
<dedalvs@...> said:
> 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:
Fun! I first put in a sentence of 7 words of my Or&#275;lynna. It came
back
as Esperanto. Yikes. I put in an additional sentence of 10 words and
it guessed Slovakian...closer, I guess. The language was inspired by
Icelandic and Finnish.

James W.