language_detector

== N-Gram Language Detection in Ruby

For technical details about language detection, I recommend this paper:

• http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/iscl/Theses/kranig.pdf

== Installation sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once) sudo gem install igrigorik-language_detector

== Usage require 'language_detector'

using generated model (built from scratch)

d = LanguageDetector.new p d.detect('this text is in English')

using textcat n-gram model

d = LanguageDetector.new('tc') p d.detect('this text is in English')

== Thanks

• Kevin Burton (training data): http://feedblog.org/2005/08/19/ngram-language-categorization-source/
• Feedbackmine: http://twitter.com/feedbackmine