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RailsTweeter
RailsTweeter

Reputation: 1635

Determine if a string is English

Is there a library where I can simple call a method on a string to find out if it is non-English? I'm trying to only save English strings and the incoming stream of strings has plenty of non-English in them.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1841

Answers (3)

NARKOZ
NARKOZ

Reputation: 27911

You can try to use linguo.

"your string".lang
# will return "en" for english strings

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of this gem.

Upvotes: 3

VelLes
VelLes

Reputation: 1032

You can use GoogleTranslate API with the RailsBridge for it - http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/gdata_on_rails.html

Upvotes: 1

Jesse Wolgamott
Jesse Wolgamott

Reputation: 40277

Not that I'm aware... but you could get this list into an array (http://www.langmaker.com/wordlist/basiclex.htm) and then match the string's words against it... Decide on some percentage as good, and go from there.

You could even use bayesian algorithm here to mark those words as "good" and learn from there, but that might be overkill.

Upvotes: 0

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