This library is a fork from the language-detection project hosted at http://code.google.com/p/language-detection/.

This is a language detection library implemented in plain Java. (aliases: language identification, language guessing)

• Presentation : http://www.slideshare.net/shuyo/language-detection-library-for-java

Abstract

• Detect language of a text using naive Bayesian filter
• 99% over precision for 49 languages

Requirements

• Java 1.5

Documents

• GettingStarted
• Tutorial
• Tools : Document of Support Tools
• LanguageList : List of Available Languages
• FrequentlyAskedQuestion

Sponsors

Thanks go to

• Zeroturnaround for the free JRebel license. http://zeroturnaround.com/jrebel
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License

Copyright 2011 Francois ROLAND.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.