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github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go
Its task is simple: It tells you which language some text is written in. This is very useful as a preprocessing step for linguistic data in natural language processing applications such as text classification and spell checking. Other use cases, for instance, might include routing e-mails to the right geographically located customer service department, based on the e-mails' languages.
Language detection is often done as part of large machine learning frameworks or natural language processing applications. In cases where you don't need the full-fledged functionality of those systems or don't want to learn the ropes of those, a small flexible library comes in handy.
So far, the only other comprehensive open source library in the Go ecosystem for this task is Whatlanggo. Unfortunately, it has two major drawbacks:
Lingua aims at eliminating these problems. She nearly does not need any configuration and yields pretty accurate results on both long and short text, even on single words and phrases. She draws on both rule-based and statistical methods but does not use any dictionaries of words. She does not need a connection to any external API or service either. Once the library has been downloaded, it can be used completely offline.
Compared to other language detection libraries, Lingua's focus is on quality over quantity, that is, getting detection right for a small set of languages first before adding new ones. Currently, the following 75 languages are supported:
Lingua is able to report accuracy statistics for some bundled test data available for each supported language. The test data for each language is split into three parts:
Both the language models and the test data have been created from separate documents of the Wortschatz corpora offered by Leipzig University, Germany. Data crawled from various news websites have been used for training, each corpus comprising one million sentences. For testing, corpora made of arbitrarily chosen websites have been used, each comprising ten thousand sentences. From each test corpus, a random unsorted subset of 1000 single words, 1000 word pairs and 1000 sentences has been extracted, respectively.
Given the generated test data, I have compared the detection results of Lingua and Whatlanggo running over the data of Lingua's supported 75 languages. Additionally, I have added Google's CLD3 to the comparison with the help of the gocld3 bindings. Languages that are not supported by CLD3 or Whatlanggo are simply ignored during the detection process.
Each of the following sections contains two plots. The bar plot shows the detailed accuracy results for each supported language. The box plot illustrates the distributions of the accuracy values for each classifier. The boxes themselves represent the areas which the middle 50 % of data lie within. Within the colored boxes, the horizontal lines mark the median of the distributions.
The table below shows detailed statistics for each language and classifier including mean, median and standard deviation.
Language | Average | Single Words | Word Pairs | Sentences | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lingua (high accuracy mode) | Lingua (low accuracy mode) | CLD3 | Whatlang | Lingua (high accuracy mode) | Lingua (low accuracy mode) | CLD3 | Whatlang | Lingua (high accuracy mode) | Lingua (low accuracy mode) | CLD3 | Whatlang | Lingua (high accuracy mode) | Lingua (low accuracy mode) | CLD3 | Whatlang | |
Afrikaans | 79 | 64 | 55 | 51 | 58 | 38 | 22 | 21 | 81 | 62 | 46 | 39 | 97 | 93 | 98 | 92 |
Albanian | 88 | 80 | 55 | - | 69 | 54 | 18 | - | 95 | 86 | 48 | - | 100 | 99 | 98 | - |
Arabic | 98 | 94 | 90 | 89 | 96 | 88 | 79 | 77 | 99 | 96 | 92 | 91 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 |
Armenian | 100 | 100 | 99 | - | 100 | 100 | 100 | - | 100 | 100 | 100 | - | 100 | 100 | 97 | - |
Azerbaijani | 90 | 82 | 81 | 65 | 77 | 71 | 62 | 45 | 92 | 78 | 82 | 58 | 99 | 96 | 99 | 91 |
Basque | 84 | 74 | 62 | - | 71 | 56 | 33 | - | 87 | 76 | 62 | - | 93 | 91 | 92 | - |
Belarusian | 97 | 92 | 84 | 81 | 92 | 80 | 67 | 64 | 99 | 95 | 86 | 80 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 |
Bengali | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 |
Bokmal | 58 | 49 | - | 34 | 39 | 27 | - | 15 | 59 | 47 | - | 29 | 75 | 74 | - | 60 |
Bosnian | 35 | 29 | 33 | - | 29 | 23 | 19 | - | 35 | 29 | 28 | - | 40 | 36 | 52 | - |
Bulgarian | 87 | 78 | 70 | 61 | 70 | 56 | 45 | 37 | 91 | 81 | 66 | 57 | 99 | 96 | 98 | 89 |
Catalan | 70 | 58 | 48 | - | 51 | 33 | 19 | - | 74 | 60 | 42 | - | 86 | 81 | 84 | - |
Chinese | 100 | 100 | 92 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 92 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 83 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Croatian | 72 | 60 | 42 | 55 | 53 | 36 | 26 | 28 | 74 | 57 | 42 | 44 | 90 | 85 | 58 | 91 |
Czech | 80 | 71 | 64 | 50 | 66 | 54 | 39 | 31 | 84 | 72 | 65 | 46 | 91 | 87 | 88 | 71 |
Danish | 81 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 61 | 45 | 26 | 24 | 84 | 70 | 54 | 38 | 98 | 95 | 95 | 79 |
Dutch | 77 | 64 | 58 | 47 | 55 | 36 | 29 | 22 | 81 | 61 | 47 | 36 | 96 | 94 | 97 | 82 |
English | 81 | 62 | 54 | 49 | 55 | 29 | 22 | 17 | 89 | 62 | 44 | 36 | 99 | 96 | 97 | 94 |
Esperanto | 84 | 66 | 57 | 52 | 67 | 44 | 22 | 25 | 85 | 61 | 51 | 45 | 98 | 92 | 98 | 88 |
Estonian | 92 | 83 | 70 | 61 | 80 | 62 | 41 | 36 | 96 | 88 | 69 | 53 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 94 |
Finnish | 96 | 91 | 80 | 71 | 90 | 77 | 58 | 45 | 98 | 95 | 84 | 70 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 98 |
French | 89 | 77 | 55 | 64 | 74 | 52 | 22 | 37 | 94 | 83 | 49 | 59 | 99 | 97 | 94 | 97 |
Ganda | 91 | 84 | - | - | 79 | 65 | - | - | 95 | 87 | - | - | 100 | 100 | - | - |
Georgian | 100 | 100 | 98 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 96 | 100 |
German | 89 | 80 | 66 | 65 | 74 | 57 | 40 | 38 | 94 | 84 | 62 | 60 | 100 | 99 | 98 | 97 |
Greek | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Gujarati | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Hebrew | 100 | 100 | - | 90 | 100 | 100 | - | 76 | 100 | 100 | - | 94 | 100 | 100 | - | 99 |
Hindi | 73 | 33 | 58 | 52 | 61 | 11 | 34 | 27 | 64 | 20 | 45 | 40 | 93 | 67 | 95 | 88 |
Hungarian | 95 | 90 | 76 | 62 | 87 | 77 | 53 | 38 | 98 | 94 | 76 | 53 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 95 |
Icelandic | 93 | 88 | 71 | - | 83 | 72 | 42 | - | 97 | 92 | 70 | - | 100 | 99 | 99 | - |
Indonesian | 60 | 48 | 46 | 67 | 39 | 25 | 26 | 39 | 61 | 46 | 45 | 66 | 81 | 72 | 66 | 95 |
Irish | 91 | 85 | 67 | - | 82 | 70 | 42 | - | 94 | 90 | 66 | - | 96 | 95 | 94 | - |
Italian | 87 | 71 | 62 | 56 | 69 | 42 | 31 | 25 | 92 | 74 | 57 | 47 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 96 |
Japanese | 100 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 97 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 96 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 97 |
Kazakh | 92 | 90 | 82 | - | 80 | 78 | 62 | - | 96 | 93 | 83 | - | 99 | 99 | 99 | - |
Korean | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 100 |
Latin | 87 | 73 | 62 | - | 72 | 49 | 44 | - | 93 | 76 | 58 | - | 97 | 93 | 83 | - |
Latvian | 93 | 87 | 75 | 59 | 85 | 75 | 51 | 36 | 97 | 90 | 77 | 54 | 99 | 97 | 98 | 87 |
Lithuanian | 95 | 87 | 72 | 62 | 86 | 76 | 42 | 38 | 98 | 89 | 75 | 56 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 92 |
Macedonian | 84 | 72 | 60 | 62 | 66 | 52 | 30 | 39 | 86 | 70 | 54 | 55 | 99 | 95 | 97 | 94 |
Malay | 31 | 31 | 22 | - | 26 | 22 | 11 | - | 38 | 36 | 22 | - | 30 | 36 | 34 | - |
Maori | 91 | 82 | 52 | - | 82 | 62 | 22 | - | 92 | 87 | 43 | - | 99 | 98 | 91 | - |
Marathi | 85 | 41 | 84 | 73 | 74 | 20 | 69 | 52 | 85 | 30 | 84 | 74 | 96 | 72 | 98 | 93 |
Mongolian | 97 | 96 | 83 | - | 93 | 89 | 63 | - | 99 | 98 | 87 | - | 99 | 99 | 99 | - |
Nynorsk | 66 | 52 | - | 34 | 41 | 25 | - | 10 | 66 | 49 | - | 24 | 90 | 81 | - | 69 |
Persian | 90 | 80 | 76 | 70 | 78 | 62 | 57 | 46 | 94 | 80 | 70 | 66 | 100 | 98 | 99 | 99 |
Polish | 95 | 90 | 77 | 66 | 85 | 77 | 51 | 45 | 98 | 93 | 80 | 59 | 100 | 99 | 99 | 94 |
Portuguese | 81 | 69 | 53 | 57 | 59 | 42 | 21 | 26 | 85 | 70 | 40 | 48 | 98 | 95 | 97 | 96 |
Punjabi | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Romanian | 87 | 72 | 53 | 59 | 69 | 49 | 24 | 34 | 92 | 74 | 48 | 52 | 99 | 94 | 88 | 90 |
Russian | 90 | 78 | 71 | 53 | 76 | 59 | 48 | 40 | 95 | 84 | 72 | 52 | 98 | 92 | 93 | 68 |
Serbian | 88 | 78 | 78 | 57 | 74 | 62 | 63 | 34 | 90 | 80 | 75 | 51 | 99 | 91 | 95 | 86 |
Shona | 91 | 81 | 76 | 68 | 78 | 56 | 51 | 44 | 96 | 86 | 79 | 65 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 95 |
Slovak | 84 | 75 | 63 | - | 64 | 49 | 32 | - | 90 | 78 | 61 | - | 99 | 97 | 96 | - |
Slovene | 82 | 67 | 63 | 48 | 61 | 39 | 29 | 25 | 87 | 68 | 60 | 38 | 99 | 93 | 99 | 81 |
Somali | 92 | 85 | 69 | 68 | 82 | 64 | 38 | 38 | 96 | 90 | 70 | 66 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 |
Sotho | 85 | 72 | 49 | - | 67 | 43 | 15 | - | 90 | 75 | 33 | - | 99 | 97 | 98 | - |
Spanish | 70 | 56 | 48 | 48 | 44 | 26 | 16 | 19 | 69 | 49 | 32 | 33 | 97 | 94 | 96 | 93 |
Swahili | 81 | 70 | 57 | - | 60 | 43 | 25 | - | 84 | 68 | 49 | - | 98 | 97 | 98 | - |
Swedish | 84 | 72 | 61 | 49 | 64 | 46 | 30 | 24 | 88 | 76 | 56 | 39 | 99 | 95 | 96 | 83 |
Tagalog | 78 | 66 | - | 52 | 52 | 36 | - | 23 | 83 | 67 | - | 43 | 99 | 96 | - | 90 |
Tamil | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 |
Telugu | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 |
Thai | 99 | 99 | 99 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 98 | 98 | 98 | 99 |
Tsonga | 84 | 72 | - | - | 66 | 46 | - | - | 89 | 73 | - | - | 98 | 97 | - | - |
Tswana | 84 | 71 | - | - | 65 | 44 | - | - | 88 | 73 | - | - | 99 | 96 | - | - |
Turkish | 94 | 87 | 69 | 54 | 84 | 71 | 41 | 26 | 98 | 91 | 70 | 44 | 100 | 99 | 97 | 92 |
Ukrainian | 92 | 86 | 81 | 72 | 84 | 75 | 62 | 53 | 97 | 92 | 83 | 71 | 95 | 93 | 98 | 93 |
Urdu | 91 | 80 | 61 | 57 | 80 | 65 | 39 | 31 | 94 | 78 | 53 | 46 | 98 | 96 | 92 | 94 |
Vietnamese | 91 | 87 | 66 | 73 | 79 | 76 | 26 | 36 | 94 | 87 | 74 | 85 | 99 | 98 | 99 | 97 |
Welsh | 91 | 82 | 69 | - | 78 | 61 | 43 | - | 96 | 87 | 66 | - | 99 | 99 | 98 | - |
Xhosa | 82 | 69 | 66 | - | 64 | 45 | 40 | - | 85 | 67 | 65 | - | 98 | 94 | 92 | - |
Yoruba | 75 | 62 | 15 | 22 | 50 | 33 | 5 | 11 | 77 | 61 | 11 | 14 | 97 | 93 | 28 | 41 |
Zulu | 81 | 70 | 63 | 70 | 62 | 45 | 35 | 44 | 83 | 72 | 63 | 68 | 97 | 94 | 92 | 98 |
Mean | 86 | 77 | 69 | 67 | 74 | 61 | 48 | 48 | 89 | 78 | 67 | 63 | 96 | 93 | 93 | 91 |
Median | 89.0 | 80.0 | 68.0 | 62.0 | 74.0 | 57.0 | 41.0 | 38.0 | 94.0 | 81.0 | 66.0 | 57.0 | 99.0 | 97.0 | 98.0 | 94.0 |
Standard Deviation | 13.1 | 17.24 | 19.04 | 20.22 | 18.41 | 24.8 | 27.86 | 29.28 | 13.12 | 18.93 | 21.83 | 24.2 | 11.05 | 11.84 | 13.95 | 11.24 |
Every language detector uses a probabilistic n-gram model trained on the character distribution in some training corpus. Most libraries only use n-grams of size 3 (trigrams) which is satisfactory for detecting the language of longer text fragments consisting of multiple sentences. For short phrases or single words, however, trigrams are not enough. The shorter the input text is, the less n-grams are available. The probabilities estimated from such few n-grams are not reliable. This is why Lingua makes use of n-grams of sizes 1 up to 5 which results in much more accurate prediction of the correct language.
A second important difference is that Lingua does not only use such a statistical model, but also a rule-based engine. This engine first determines the alphabet of the input text and searches for characters which are unique in one or more languages. If exactly one language can be reliably chosen this way, the statistical model is not necessary anymore. In any case, the rule-based engine filters out languages that do not satisfy the conditions of the input text. Only then, in a second step, the probabilistic n-gram model is taken into consideration. This makes sense because loading less language models means less memory consumption and better runtime performance.
In general, it is always a good idea to restrict the set of languages to be considered in the classification process using the respective api methods. If you know beforehand that certain languages are never to occur in an input text, do not let those take part in the classifcation process. The filtering mechanism of the rule-based engine is quite good, however, filtering based on your own knowledge of the input text is always preferable.
If you want to reproduce the accuracy results above, you can generate the test reports yourself for both classifiers and all languages by doing:
cd cmd
go run accuracy_reporter.go
For gocld3 to run successfully, you need to install the exact
version 3.17.3 of Google's protocol buffers which is a bit
unfortunate. For each detector and language, a test report file is then written into
/accuracy-reports
.
As an example, here is the current output of the Lingua German report:
##### German #####
>>> Accuracy on average: 89.23%
>> Detection of 1000 single words (average length: 9 chars)
Accuracy: 73.90%
Erroneously classified as Dutch: 2.30%, Danish: 2.10%, English: 2.00%, Latin: 1.90%, Bokmal: 1.60%, Basque: 1.20%, French: 1.20%, Italian: 1.20%, Esperanto: 1.10%, Swedish: 1.00%, Afrikaans: 0.80%, Tsonga: 0.70%, Nynorsk: 0.60%, Portuguese: 0.60%, Yoruba: 0.60%, Finnish: 0.50%, Sotho: 0.50%, Welsh: 0.50%, Estonian: 0.40%, Irish: 0.40%, Polish: 0.40%, Spanish: 0.40%, Swahili: 0.40%, Tswana: 0.40%, Bosnian: 0.30%, Icelandic: 0.30%, Tagalog: 0.30%, Albanian: 0.20%, Catalan: 0.20%, Croatian: 0.20%, Indonesian: 0.20%, Lithuanian: 0.20%, Maori: 0.20%, Romanian: 0.20%, Xhosa: 0.20%, Zulu: 0.20%, Latvian: 0.10%, Malay: 0.10%, Slovak: 0.10%, Slovene: 0.10%, Somali: 0.10%, Turkish: 0.10%
>> Detection of 1000 word pairs (average length: 18 chars)
Accuracy: 94.10%
Erroneously classified as Dutch: 0.90%, Latin: 0.80%, English: 0.70%, Swedish: 0.60%, Danish: 0.50%, French: 0.40%, Bokmal: 0.30%, Irish: 0.20%, Tagalog: 0.20%, Afrikaans: 0.10%, Esperanto: 0.10%, Estonian: 0.10%, Finnish: 0.10%, Italian: 0.10%, Maori: 0.10%, Nynorsk: 0.10%, Somali: 0.10%, Swahili: 0.10%, Tsonga: 0.10%, Turkish: 0.10%, Welsh: 0.10%, Zulu: 0.10%
>> Detection of 1000 sentences (average length: 111 chars)
Accuracy: 99.70%
Erroneously classified as Dutch: 0.20%, Latin: 0.10%
go get github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go
Lingua requires at least Go version 1.18.
git clone https://github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go.git
cd lingua-go
go build
The source code is accompanied by an extensive unit test suite. To run the tests, simply say:
go test
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go"
)
func main() {
languages := []lingua.Language{
lingua.English,
lingua.French,
lingua.German,
lingua.Spanish,
}
detector := lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().
FromLanguages(languages...).
Build()
if language, exists := detector.DetectLanguageOf("languages are awesome"); exists {
fmt.Println(language)
}
// Output: English
}
By default, Lingua returns the most likely language for a given input text. However, there are certain words that are spelled the same in more than one language. The word prologue, for instance, is both a valid English and French word. Lingua would output either English or French which might be wrong in the given context. For cases like that, it is possible to specify a minimum relative distance that the logarithmized and summed up probabilities for each possible language have to satisfy. It can be stated in the following way:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go"
)
func main() {
languages := []lingua.Language{
lingua.English,
lingua.French,
lingua.German,
lingua.Spanish,
}
detector := lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().
FromLanguages(languages...).
WithMinimumRelativeDistance(0.9).
Build()
language, exists := detector.DetectLanguageOf("languages are awesome")
fmt.Println(language)
fmt.Println(exists)
// Output:
// Unknown
// false
}
Be aware that the distance between the language probabilities is dependent on the length of the
input text. The longer the input text, the larger the distance between the languages. So if you
want to classify very short text phrases, do not set the minimum relative distance too high.
Otherwise Unknown
will be
returned most of the time as in the example above. This is the return value for cases where
language detection is not reliably possible. This value is not meant to be included in the set
of input languages when building the language detector. If you include it, it will be
automatically removed from the set of input languages.
Knowing about the most likely language is nice but how reliable is the computed likelihood? And how less likely are the other examined languages in comparison to the most likely one? These questions can be answered as well:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go"
)
func main() {
languages := []lingua.Language{
lingua.English,
lingua.French,
lingua.German,
lingua.Spanish,
}
detector := lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().
FromLanguages(languages...).
Build()
confidenceValues := detector.ComputeLanguageConfidenceValues("languages are awesome")
for _, elem := range confidenceValues {
fmt.Printf("%s: %.2f\n", elem.Language(), elem.Value())
}
// Output:
// English: 0.93
// French: 0.04
// German: 0.02
// Spanish: 0.01
}
In the example above, a slice of
ConfidenceValue
is returned containing all possible languages sorted by their confidence value in descending
order. Each value is a probability between 0.0 and 1.0. The probabilities of all languages
will sum to 1.0. If the language is unambiguously identified by the rule engine, the value 1.0
will always be returned for this language. The other languages will receive a value of 0.0.
There is also a method for returning the confidence value for one specific language only:
confidence := detector.ComputeLanguageConfidence("languages are awesome", lingua.French)
fmt.Printf("%.2f", confidence)
// Output:
// 0.04
The value that this method computes is a number between 0.0 and 1.0. If the language is unambiguously identified by the rule engine, the value 1.0 will always be returned. If the given language is not supported by this detector instance, the value 0.0 will always be returned.
By default, Lingua uses lazy-loading to load only those language models on demand which are considered relevant by the rule-based filter engine. For web services, for instance, it is rather beneficial to preload all language models into memory to avoid unexpected latency while waiting for the service response. If you want to enable the eager-loading mode, you can do it like this:
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().
FromAllLanguages().
WithPreloadedLanguageModels().
Build()
Multiple instances of LanguageDetector
share the same language models in memory which are
accessed asynchronously by the instances.
Lingua's high detection accuracy comes at the cost of being noticeably slower than other language detectors. The large language models also consume significant amounts of memory. These requirements might not be feasible for systems running low on resources. If you want to classify mostly long texts or need to save resources, you can enable a low accuracy mode that loads only a small subset of the language models into memory:
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().
FromAllLanguages().
WithLowAccuracyMode().
Build()
The downside of this approach is that detection accuracy for short texts consisting of less than 120 characters will drop significantly. However, detection accuracy for texts which are longer than 120 characters will remain mostly unaffected.
In high accuracy mode (the default), the language detector consumes approximately 1,800 MB of memory if all language models are loaded. In low accuracy mode, memory consumption is reduced to approximately 110 MB. The goal is to further reduce memory consumption in later releases.
An alternative for a smaller memory footprint and faster performance is to reduce the set of languages when building the language detector. In most cases, it is not advisable to build the detector from all supported languages. When you have knowledge about the texts you want to classify you can almost always rule out certain languages as impossible or unlikely to occur.
In contrast to most other language detectors, Lingua is able to detect multiple languages in mixed-language texts. This feature can yield quite reasonable results but it is still in an experimental state and therefore the detection result is highly dependent on the input text. It works best in high-accuracy mode with multiple long words for each language. The shorter the phrases and their words are, the less accurate are the results. Reducing the set of languages when building the language detector can also improve accuracy for this task if the languages occurring in the text are equal to the languages supported by the respective language detector instance.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/jeffphp/lingua-go"
)
func main() {
languages := []lingua.Language{
lingua.English,
lingua.French,
lingua.German,
}
detector := lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().
FromLanguages(languages...).
Build()
sentence := "Parlez-vous français? " +
"Ich spreche Französisch nur ein bisschen. " +
"A little bit is better than nothing."
for _, result := range detector.DetectMultipleLanguagesOf(sentence) {
fmt.Printf("%s: '%s'\n", result.Language(), sentence[result.StartIndex():result.EndIndex()])
}
// Output:
// French: 'Parlez-vous français? '
// German: 'Ich spreche Französisch nur ein bisschen. '
// English: 'A little bit is better than nothing.'
}
In the example above, a slice of DetectionResult
is returned. Each entry in the slice describes a contiguous single-language text section,
providing start and end indices of the respective substring.
There might be classification tasks where you know beforehand that your language data is definitely not written in Latin, for instance. The detection accuracy can become better in such cases if you exclude certain languages from the decision process or just explicitly include relevant languages:
// Include all languages available in the library.
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromAllLanguages()
// Include only languages that are not yet extinct (= currently excludes Latin).
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromAllSpokenLanguages()
// Include only languages written with Cyrillic script.
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromAllLanguagesWithCyrillicScript()
// Exclude only the Spanish language from the decision algorithm.
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromAllLanguagesWithout(lingua.Spanish)
// Only decide between English and German.
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromLanguages(lingua.English, lingua.German)
// Select languages by ISO 639-1 code.
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromIsoCodes639_1(lingua.EN, lingua.DE)
// Select languages by ISO 639-3 code.
lingua.NewLanguageDetectorBuilder().FromIsoCodes639_3(lingua.ENG, lingua.DEU)
Take a look at the planned issues.
Any contributions to Lingua are very much appreciated. Please read the instructions
in CONTRIBUTING.md
for how to add new languages to the library.
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