scylla

Scylla is a language categorizing gem that allows you to guess the language of a given text. Scylla is a Ruby port of TextCat (www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat) and is based on the text categorization algorithm presented in Cavnar, W. B. and J. M. Trenkle, “N-Gram-Based Text Categorization'' In Proceedings of Third Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV, UNLV Publications/Reprographics, pp. 161-175, 11-13 April 1994.

Installation

gem install scylla

Usage

require 'scylla'

"this is english text".language
=> "english" 

"Este es un texto español".language
=> "spanish"

Multiple results for other possible languages:

"isso poderia ser confundido com espanhol, bem".language
=> "portuguese"

"isso poderia ser confundido com espanhol, bem".guess_language
=> ["portuguese", "spanish"]

Training

Training is done by fetching data from wikipedia. To fetch latest articles (The country name in the language in question, eg. “England” for English or “日本” for Japanese), run

rake scylla:train

Contributing to scylla

Copyright © 2011 Ashwin Hegde. See LICENSE.txt for further details.