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Natural language detection

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2014-10-03 · latest 2017-03-10

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  1. Franc seems to work well on longer passages. Such as these: https://github.com/wooorm/franc/blob/master/spec/fixtures.js... It’s interesting though, I’ll take a look at it!
    comment by wooorm · 2014-10-03 · in Show HN: Franc – Detect natural languages
  2. The supported languages file ( https://github.com/wooorm/franc/blob/master/Supported-Langua... ) lists Matu Chin as having 182,000,000 speakers. Having never heard of it this surprised me, but the Wikipedia page for it (…
    comment by robin_reala · 2014-10-03 · in Show HN: Franc – Detect natural languages
  3. …2-sec look at the code, it's using a built-in database of trigrams as a predictor of the language. https://github.com/wooorm/franc/blob/master/lib/data.json
    comment by hywel · 2014-10-03 · in Show HN: Franc – Detect natural languages