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Mastering Text Mining with R

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551811
Pages 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
KUMAR ASHISH KUMAR ASHISH
Profile icon KUMAR ASHISH

Language detection


TextCat is a text classification utility. The primary usage of TextCat is language identification. textcat package in R provides wrapper function for n-gram based text categorization and the language detection. It can detect up to 75 languages:

Library(textcat)
>my.profiles <- TC_byte_profiles[names(TC_byte_profiles)]
>my.profiles

A textcat profile db of length 75.

> my.text <- c("This book is in English language",
 "Das ist ein deutscher Satz.",
 "Il s'agit d'une phrase française.",
 "Esta es una frase en espa~nol.")
 textcat(my.text, p = my.profiles)
> textcat(my.text, p = my.profiles)

[1] "english" "german"  "french"  "spanish"
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