Automatic Language Identification
M. Zampieri*,† ⁎ Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany† German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany
Abstract
Automatic language identification or simply language identification is the task of automatically identifying the language(s) contained in a given document. It is an important part of many text processing pipelines including text mining applications. This chapter provides a concise overview on language identification research from early approaches to state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords
Language identification
Text classification
n-grams
Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre and Nikola Ljubešić for commenting on a draft ...
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