There are ways to figure out language with very short text. In fact,
one can identify language changes in documents that contain text in
multiple languages.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/090114.html
That's not to say that Twitter uses such methods, just that it's
possible to identify languages in tweet-size documents.
On Oct 26, 6:19 am, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote:
The language selection is useless, even with a limitation to English.
The problem is probably that normal methods of attributing language
are more or less based on longer text - and not text stripped down
to 140 chars or less.
If you want to make detection f.e. in search, rather get all
results and apply common sense methods, like grep
special words which most likely are only used in your
language of choice.
For real 'select your choice here' it is not going to work.
At the current rate, this is rather hurting than helping.
I instruct users in my book to rather use search which
will limit itself, i.e. use German words if possible in search.
Nicole
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