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Fast and accurate language identification using fastText

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Re: Fast and accurate language identification using fastText

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Nice the author created this based on tatoeba.org data, I used to be the main developer and for tatoeba I created a language detector (because it's was painful for people to have to input a sentence AND the language, especially for polyglots), so it's more likely the language data used for this language detector was made itself by a language detector, funny when you think about it :)

https://github.com/allan-simon/Tatodetect (I should rewrite it in Rust some days) , it's a simple N-gram detector.

Re: Fast and accurate language identification using fastText

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Why is it just 93% accurate on Wikipedia? Is it that hard to identify languages?

I suspect it's due to mixed-language content on Wikipedia. A lot of Wikipedia articles talk about foreign language art and culture, this is one of the largest (if not the largest) single categories of content on non-English Wikipedias.
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