Tool for identifying languages

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:34:06AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a tool that can determine which language a
> > chunk of text is written in? (Assume a few hundred words)
> 
> http://languid.cantbedone.org/
> http://languid.cantbedone.org/Language-Guess.tgz

Wow.  Unbelievable.  Thank you Chris.
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer


Why I'm "wowed":

This tool appears to use some form of statistical analysis based on
how often certain three "character" strings appear.  Also, whitespace is
one of the characters.   Very nice, and thanks again to Chris.

Here's a few random lines of the English "strings" file:
t t                     45
 be                     46
ld                      47
e a                     48
rs                      49
 wa                     50
ut                      51
ve                      52
ll                      53




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