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franc

Detect the Language of Text

Franc has no external dependencies and supports 310 languages; all languages spoken by more than one million speakers. Franc is a port of the JavaScript project of the same name, see https://github.com/wooorm/franc.

Installation

install.packages("franc")

Usage

library(franc)

Simply supply the text, and franc detects its language:

franc("Alle menslike wesens word vry")

#> [1] "afr"

franc("এটি একটি ভাষা একক IBM স্ক্রিপ্ট")

#> [1] "ben"

franc("Alle mennesker er født frie og")

#> [1] "nno"

head(franc_all("O Brasil caiu 26 posições"))

#>   language     score
#> 1      por 1.0000000
#> 2      src 0.8800937
#> 3      glg 0.8702576
#> 4      snn 0.8637002
#> 5      bos 0.8168618
#> 6      hrv 0.8103044

und is the undefined language, this is returned if the input is too short (shorter than 10 characters by default).

franc("the")

#> [1] "und"

franc("the", min_length = 3)

#> [1] "sco"

You can provide a whitelist or a blacklist:

franc_all("O Brasil caiu 26 posições",
    whitelist = c("por", "src", "glg", "spa"))

#>   language     score
#> 1      por 1.0000000
#> 2      src 0.8800937
#> 3      glg 0.8702576
#> 4      spa 0.7995316

head(franc_all("O Brasil caiu 26 posições",
    blacklist = c("src", "glg", "lav")))

#>   language     score
#> 1      por 1.0000000
#> 2      snn 0.8637002
#> 3      bos 0.8168618
#> 4      hrv 0.8103044
#> 5      cat 0.8065574
#> 6      spa 0.7995316

Supported languages

The R version of franc supports 310 languages. By default only the languages with more than 1 million speakers are used, this is 175 languages. The min_speakers argument can relax this, and allows using more languages:

head(franc_all("O Brasil caiu 26 posições"))

#>   language     score
#> 1      por 1.0000000
#> 2      src 0.8800937
#> 3      glg 0.8702576
#> 4      snn 0.8637002
#> 5      bos 0.8168618
#> 6      hrv 0.8103044

head(franc_all("O Brasil caiu 26 posições", min_speakers = 0))

#>   language     score
#> 1      lad 1.0000000
#> 2      por 0.9442724
#> 3      pov 0.8788147
#> 4      ast 0.8677576
#> 5      roh 0.8363556
#> 6      src 0.8310482

License

MIT © Mango Solutions, Titus Wormer, Maciej Ceglowski, Jacob R. Rideout, Kent S. Johnson, Gábor Csárdi

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.