Google Translate just released (last week) its language API with translation and LANGUAGE DETECTION. :)
It's very simple to use, and you can query it with some text to define witch language is it. Here is a simple example using groovy, but all you need is the url to query: http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/view.groovy?id=16 []s, Lucas Frare Teixeira .ยท. - lucas...@gmail.com - blog.lucastex.com - twitter.com/lucastex On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Bradford Stephens < bradfordsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > We're trying to add foreign language support into our new search > engine -- languages like Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu (that don't work with > standard analyzers). But our data source doesn't tell us which > languages we're actually collecting -- we just get blocks of text. Has > anyone here worked on language detection so we can figure out what > analyzers to use? Are there commercial solutions? > > Much appreciated! > > -- > http://www.roadtofailure.com -- The Fringes of Scalability, Social > Media, and Computer Science >
