Show HN: Language detection as a service
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Show HN: Language detection as a service
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Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#2For those who thought (like me) that this was a programming language detection service, you can take a look at github/linguist.
Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#3Looks interesting. Why not have a input on the landing page where someone can try it out without even signing up? I think then people could give it a spin before they give away their email address. Otherwise, the user just has to trust your 99% figure, which it might be helpful to give some data around, even if it is a footnote (on a corpus of x, over x period of time, etc.)
Also, I think it would be clearer if it said "A simple and scalable way to automatically classify text by language" instead of "A simple and scalable way to classify automatically text by language".
Design looks very clean though. Nice work.
EDIT: Also, your social media links at the bottom aren't hooked up yet.
Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#4Why is this better than the Google or Bing translate APIs, which also offer language detection?
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#5"test it out" comes back as french...
Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#6Some day I have to rewrite whatlanguageis.com (currently not working) with all the great ideas I had to improve it...
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#7Hmm, it takes 5+ seconds to get a response, and it chokes on the same test phrase as Google, thinking "Ik hou van vette lettertypes." is Norwegian...
Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#8You should also consider full-non-ambiguous words before trying with trigrams. "marché" is only available in French, whereas "mar", "arc", ... are available in lots of languages. This should drastically improve your results.
Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#9You should also consider full-non-ambiguous words before trying with trigrams. "marché" is only available in French, whereas "mar", "arc", ... are available in lots of languages. This should drastically improve your results.
Store only the top N common non-ambiguous words if the RAM consumption matters ;)
Re: Show HN: Language detection as a service
#10"test it out" comes back as french...
Maybe you've fallen in the 1% error rate ?