languagedetect

Node Language Detect

LanguageDetect is a port of the PEAR::Text_LanguageDetect for node.js.

LanguageDetect can identify 52 human languages from text samples and return confidence scores for each.

Installation

This package can be installed via npm as follows

% npm install languagedetect -g

Example

var LanguageDetect = require('languagedetect');
var lngDetector = new LanguageDetect();

// OR
// var lngDetector = new (require('languagedetect'));

console.log(lngDetector.detect('This is a test.'));

/*
  [ [ 'english', 0.5969230769230769 ],
  [ 'hungarian', 0.407948717948718 ],
  [ 'latin', 0.39205128205128204 ],
  [ 'french', 0.367948717948718 ],
  [ 'portuguese', 0.3669230769230769 ],
  [ 'estonian', 0.3507692307692307 ],
  [ 'latvian', 0.2615384615384615 ],
  [ 'spanish', 0.2597435897435898 ],
  [ 'slovak', 0.25051282051282053 ],
  [ 'dutch', 0.2482051282051282 ],
  [ 'lithuanian', 0.2466666666666667 ],
  ... ]
*/

// Only get the first 2 results
console.log(lngDetector.detect('This is a test.', 2));

/*
  [ [ 'english', 0.5969230769230769 ], [ 'hungarian', 0.407948717948718 ] ]
*/

API

• detect(sample, limit) Detects the closeness of a sample of text to the known languages
• getLanguages() Returns the list of detectable languages
• getLanguageCount() Returns the number of languages that the lib can detect

Benchmark

Currently LanguageDetect handles 1000 items in 2 seconds (vs 7.5 seconds with PEAR::Text_LanguageDetect)

Credits

Nicholas Pisarro for his work on PEAR::Text_LanguageDetect