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Language identification

In natural language processing, language identification or language guessing is the problem of determining which natural language a given content is in. Computational approaches to this problem view it as a special case of text categorization, solved with various statistical methods.

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Identifying similar languages

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Language identification

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Triples130
Avg. degree1.9
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related to References · 91
Language identification → Amsterdam, Analysing, Annual Symposium, Applying Monte Carlo, Applying NLP Tools, April, Archived, Arjen, Benedetto, BUCC, Building, Caglioti, Carpuat, Cavnar, Cilibrasi, CLIN, Clustering, Coling, Comparing, Complexity
related to Identifying similar languages · 26
Language identification → American English, Argentine Spanish, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, DSL, European Portuguese, Goutte, Group, In, Indonesian, Macedonian, Malay, Malaysian, One, Peninsular Spanish, Results
related to Statistical approach · 8
Language identification → An, English, For, French, Given, Grefenstette, There, Web
see also · 5
Language identification → Analysis, Determination, Language, Native Language IdentificationAlgorithmic, OriginMachine

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Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesOne0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesSimilar0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesBulgarian0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesMacedonian0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesIndonesian0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesMalay0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesIn0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesDSL0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesTan0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesGroup0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesBosnian0.60section
Language identificationrelated to Identifying similar languagesCroatian0.60section

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