I guess that's really a challenging task, depending on how accurate the result should be.
Just googled and found a few interesting links (you might be aware of already). But statistical approaches mentioned in some of the linked sites are probably useless, given the fact that a song or album name is usually very short. http://whatlanguageisthis.com/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/identify-language-of-text/8441/ http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/bloom-filters-in-scala http://stackoverflow.com/questions/431159/how-do-i-identify-language-of-a-text-document-in-java And Google offers a commercial service for this task ($20 per 1 M characters of text): https://developers.google.com/translate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98024 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
