Node Language Detect

LanguageDetect is a port of the PEAR::Text_LanguageDetect for node.js.

LanguageDetect can identify 52 human languages from text samples and return confidence scores for each.

Installation

This package can be installed via npm as follows

npm install languagedetect --save

Example

const LanguageDetect = require('languagedetect');
const lngDetector = new LanguageDetect();

// OR
// const lngDetector = new (require('languagedetect'));

console.log(lngDetector.detect('This is a test.'));

/*
  [ [ 'english', 0.5969230769230769 ],
  [ 'hungarian', 0.407948717948718 ],
  [ 'latin', 0.39205128205128204 ],
  [ 'french', 0.367948717948718 ],
  [ 'portuguese', 0.3669230769230769 ],
  [ 'estonian', 0.3507692307692307 ],
  [ 'latvian', 0.2615384615384615 ],
  [ 'spanish', 0.2597435897435898 ],
  [ 'slovak', 0.25051282051282053 ],
  [ 'dutch', 0.2482051282051282 ],
  [ 'lithuanian', 0.2466666666666667 ],
  ... ]
*/

// Only get the first 2 results
console.log(lngDetector.detect('This is a test.', 2));

/*
  [ [ 'english', 0.5969230769230769 ], [ 'hungarian', 0.407948717948718 ] ]
*/

API

detect(sample, limit) Detects the closeness of a sample of text to the known languages
getLanguages() Returns the list of detectable languages
getLanguageCount() Returns the number of languages that the lib can detect
setLanguageType(format) Sets the language format to be used. Suported values:
- iso2, resulting in two letter language format
- iso3, resulting in three letter language format
- Any other value results in the full language name

Benchmark

node.js 1000 items processed in 1.277 secs (482 with a score > 0.2)
PHP 1000 items processed in 4.835 secs (535 with a score > 0.2)

Credits

Nicholas Pisarro for his work on PEAR::Text_LanguageDetect

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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