Hello folks

I need to develop a more trustable way to guess the language of strings as short as book titles. I've just tried Text::Language::Guess but itīs results are quite unreliable on tests with short strings.

Iīve noticed this module considers mostly the articles to guess. But Iīd need to provide Perl full dictionary recognition for the six idioms involved. (fr,it,es,en,de,pt)

So, I have two major issues to overcome:
1) Where to find, or how to build, trustable and pure word lists for each of the languages. I thought about web crawling using Google's language restrictions, but the problem is that there are a lot of company names, product names, personīs names, in short, lots of garbage in between.

2) Once I have these pure words loaded in distinct .txts, how to do the matching approach?
a) Load them all each one in an array and grep each one of the titleīs words against them?
b) Load them all each one in a tokenized string, Eg. "nous, lui, elle, parler, " and =~ m// each one of the titleīs word against them?

Text::Language::Guess's article based guessing is not enough because you can have titles like 'Cutting Edges' that donīt happen to have any articles or pronoums. You just have to know that 'cutting' and 'edge(s)' is english and thatīs all.

I wait for thy help then!

Thanks

André

In reply to Idiom guessing script by Andre_br

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