On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:48 AM, alan lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any function/library/API which can detect the language of a > particular piece of text (no internet connection)? > i.e. for an input text "This is a sentence", it should detect the > language as "English". > Or for "Esto es una sentencia" it should detect the language as > "Spanish".
I don't think you can do it without internet connection and utilising some API (like Google Translate) with massive dictionaries behind it. To establish letter frequencies, you would need to capture quite lot of text (well, more than 1 sentence) for the analysis to be statistically valid, otherwise you would have many errors. The differences are small towards the end of the tail. Please have a look at this article, to see, what you would be against: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency Similar issue is with local dictionaries: you would need them to be quite big in order to achieve decent results. Scanning those would take time. Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
