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I wrote whatlanguageis.com (still early beta with just 7 languages and a less than decent identifier) as a test of django abilities. It was fun!

• marquis 14y ago
  This is a great idea but it returned Dutch for "voy al supermercado", though it was correct for "ik ga naar de supermarkt' and 'je vais au supermarché'. Good luck!
  • RBerenguel 14y ago
    For very short phrases the data corpora are too shallow. I have to improve that, and the identifier logic, and... The most important part was discovering that django is amazingly fun & simple. Thanks for the encouragement :)
    • marquis 14y ago
      Right, that makes sense that you need a bigger chunk of data. You could fix that on the user end by just adding a note 'works best with more input'.
      • RBerenguel 14y ago
        Yes, but I also want some kind of enforcement: for short phrases I want to check for being in corpora, if it is clearly in a language I don't want to say "write more," but just identify the language and only in dubious cases put the blame on the user. Ahh, if I had more time and less projects I'd finish this right now :)