languagedet 0.1.1

Python clases for detecting languges.

What is this package

The languagedet package implements language detection using stopwords and trigrams. It has three clases:

• languagedet.stopwords.StopWordsDetector: detects language using stopword lists.

• languagedet.textcat.TextCatDetector: uses the libexttexcat library for language detection.

• languagedet.mixed.MixedDetector: uses StopWordsDetector and if it fails then use TextCatDetector.

Intallation

This package depends on the libexttextcat library. To install it in Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev libexttextcat-dev

Now you can install using pip:

$ pip install languagedet

Example

In [1]: from languagedet.mixed import MixedDetector

In [2]: det = MixedDetector()

In [3]: det.available
Out[3]:
['fr',
 'en',
 'de',
 'it',
 'da',
 'fi',
 'hu',
 'es',
 'ru',
 'nl',
 'pt',
 'no',
 'tr',
 'sv']

In [4]: det('biblioteca para la detectar idioma')
Out[4]: 'es'

Changelog

Version 0.1.1

• Modified setup.py.

• Added a README.txt.

• Added a MANIFEST.in to include data files missing in version 0.1.

• Removed dependencies form cython and setuptools-cython.

Version 0.1

• Initial version.

• Support for language detectión using stopwords and the exttextcat library.