Text language identification using Wikipedia data

The aim of this project is to provide high-quality language detection over all the web's languages. The proxy for all web's languages is Wikipedia. Currently, we support 156 languages that have their Wikipedia entries.

Usage

The main function is text-langs that returns 2 values:

• a lang - probability alist (languages are represented by their ISO-639-1 codes)
• a vector of tokens with their inferred langs

WILD> (text-langs "це тест")
((:UK . 0.5000003) (:RU . 0.4999998))
#(<це - UK:1.00> <тест - RU:1.00>)

Running as a service

Installation

1. Install SBCL
2. Get Quicklisp
3. Git clone project
4. $ cd wiki-lang-detect; sbcl --load run.lisp

Running as a Docker

docker build -t wiki-lang-detect:latest .
docker run -it -p 5000:5000 wiki-lang-detect:latest

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{'text': 'Несе Галя'}"  http://localhost:5000/detect | jq '.'

Or you can use prebuilt Docker image maintained outside of this repository.

docker run -it -p 5000:5000 chaliy/wiki-lang-detect:latest

API

See swagger definition

Helpful links:

• Index of languages by writing system
• Evaluating language identification performance