An interesting program! I think it's a wee bit ambitious to say that
it can recognise a language
from a one word sample. Usually it will return "Language not
recognized", but it will try to
recognize the language family. I tried "rostrum" and it returned a
language family of "Latin"
but then I tried "man" and also got a language family of "Latin", so I
think there is some
room for tweakage. It did tell me that similar languages include
Acholi and Afrikaans among
a presumably longer list that I couldn't access.

It couldn't recognise the language of "radio station manager", but
informed me that the
text was similar to English. It couldn't even recognise a whole
sentence "he is a radio
station manager" as English. However, it *could* recognise "he is a
fish monger" as English.
With 67% accuracy. "He is a radio monger" returned possibles as
disparate as Italian and
Kwangali. I suppose I could go to Kwangaliland and should I ask for a
radio monger, will be
directed to the nearest one without trouble!

Finally, I copied a long Kerno text into the digester and it told me,
with 100% accuracy, that
the language is ... Italian! Molto bene! Then, I copied in the whole
story text (a much larger
sample), and it told me, again with 100% accuracy, that the language
is ... drumroll please ...
English! Wait. English?? The same text! Lastly, I copied a very long
Kerno text (20k+ words)
and also got told the language was English. I think the digester just
defaults to English when
you put in a lot of words.

On a lark, I copied some Chaucer and it recognised this as English;
but Beowulf got
recognised as Danish; El Cid (I guess Middle Spanish?) got recognised
as Spanish.

Cute, but I wouldn't rely on Polyglot 3000 for any serious need to
recognise a language
from a text.

Padraic

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Paul Schleitwiler, FCM
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Identifies almost 500 languages from sample as small as one word,
>
> Language Identifier – Polyglot 3000 :: Likasoft<http://www.polyglot3000.com/>
>
> Have no commercial interest in this. Jusdt thought some might find useful.
> God bless you always, all ways,
> Paul
>



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