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Language detection using Spacy and Fasttext

spacy_fastlang

Install

Assuming you have a working python environment, you can simply install it using

pip install spacy_fastlang

Usage

The library exports a pipeline component called language_detector that will set two spacy extensions

  • doc._.language = ISO code of the detected language or xx as a fallback
  • doc._.language_score = confidence
import spacy_fastlang
nlp = spacy.load("...")
nlp.add_pipe("language_detector")
doc = nlp(en_text)

doc._.language == "..."
doc._.language_score >= ...

Options

Check the tests to see more examples and available options

License

Everythin is under MIT except the default model which is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0 by facebook here