FW: New answer to "What are the best algorithms for classifying the language of a text snippet? Why?"

[Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org>]

This seems like a relevant Quora question..



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Date: Thursday, August 14, 2014 7:43 AM
To: Chris Mattmann <ch...@gmail.com>
Subject: New answer to "What are the best algorithms for classifying the
language of a text snippet? Why?"

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>                New answer to "What are the best algorithms for
>classifying the language of a text snippet? Why?"
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><http://www.quora.com/question/auto_upvote_answer?aid=6517162&key=771db5dc
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><http://www.quora.com/question/auto_downvote_answer?aid=6517162&key=2140c8
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>Luis Argerich <http://www.quora.com/Luis-Argerich>, Crazy college
>professor.
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>Here's a trick that works.
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>If you are doing this for a website <http://www.quora.com/Websites> then
>measure where the views for that text snippet come from. If they are from
>Japan then your text is Japanese.
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>It sounds silly but works a lot better than trying to classify the text
>by its contents because many snippets are really difficult to classify as
>they mix different languages, character sets etc. As an example imagine
>you have a webpage with a few links in english and an image with text in
>chinese.
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>http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-algorithms-for-classifying-the-lang
>uage-of-a-text-snippet-Why/answer/Luis-Argerich
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>Thanks,
>The Quora Team
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