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gielladetect
Language detection module based on the GiellaLT models, specifically aimed at minority and indigenous languages
- Version
- 1.0.3
- Maintainers
- 1
Makes the language classification script from the GiellaLT's corpus tools available as a python module (GiellaLT's website, original repo).
The source code as well as the language model files are released under the GPL-3.0 license.
Installation
pip install gielladetect
Usage
import gielladetect
text = "Lurer du på hva som rører seg innenfor veggene til Nasjonalbiblioteket på Solli plass i Oslo?"
gielladetect.detect(text)
# Result: 'nob'
# To restrict detection to a subset of languages:
gielladetect.detect(text, ['nob', 'nno', 'eng'])
# Result: 'nob'
Supported languages
Using ISO 639-3 codes.
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| ara | Arabic |
| bxr | Russia Buriat |
| ckb | Central Kurdish |
| dan | Danish |
| deu | German |
| eng | English |
| est | Estonian |
| fao | Faroese |
| fas | Persian |
| fin | Finnish |
| fit | Tornedalen Finnish |
| fkv | Kven Finnish |
| fra | French |
| hbs | Serbo-Croatian |
| isl | Icelandic |
| ita | Italian |
| kal | Kalaallisut |
| kmr | Northern Kurdish |
| koi | Komi-Permyak |
| kpv | Komi-Zyrian |
| krl | Karelian |
| mdf | Moksha |
| mhr | Eastern Mari |
| mns | Mansi |
| mrj | Western Mari |
| myv | Erzya |
| nno | Norwegian Nynorsk |
| nob | Norwegian Bokmål |
| olo | Livvi |
| pol | Polish |
| rmf | Kalo Finnish Romani |
| rmn | Balkan Romani |
| rmu | Tavringer Romani |
| rmy | Vlax Romani |
| ron | Romanian |
| rus | Russian |
| sma | Southern Sami |
| sme | Northern Sami |
| smj | Lule Sami |
| smn | Inari Sami |
| sms | Skolt Sami |
| som | Somali |
| spa | Spanish |
| swe | Swedish |
| tur | Turkish |
| udm | Udmurt |
| urd | Urdu |
| vep | Veps |
| vie | Vietnamese |
| yid | Yiddish |
| yrk | Nenets |
FAQs
Language detection module based on the GiellaLT models, specifically aimed at minority and indigenous languages
We found that gielladetect demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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