How do I detect what language a text is written in using NLTK?
The examples I've seen use nltk.detect
, but when I've installed it on my mac, I cannot find this package.
Have you come across the following code snippet?
english_vocab = set(w.lower() for w in nltk.corpus.words.words())
text_vocab = set(w.lower() for w in text if w.lower().isalpha())
unusual = text_vocab.difference(english_vocab)
from http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-users/browse_thread/thread/a5f52af2cbc4cfeb?pli=1&safe=active
Or the following demo file?