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Natural language detection package in pure Go

getlang

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getlang provides fast natural language detection in Go.

Features

  • Offline -- no internet connection required
  • Supports 29 languages
  • Provides ISO 639 language codes
  • Fast

Getting started

Installation:

    go get -u github.com/rylans/getlang

example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/rylans/getlang"
)

func main(){
  info := getlang.FromString("Wszyscy ludzie rodzą się wolni i równi w swojej godności i prawach")
  fmt.Println(info.LanguageCode(), info.Confidence())
}

Documentation

getlang on godoc

License

MIT

Acknowledgements and Citations

  • Thanks to abadojack for the trigram generation logic in whatlanggo
  • Cavnar, William B., and John M. Trenkle. "N-gram-based text categorization." Ann arbor mi 48113.2 (1994): 161-175.