Whatlanggo

Natural language detection for Go.

Features

• Supports 84 languages
• 100% written in Go
• No external dependencies
• Fast
• Recognizes not only a language, but also a script (Latin, Cyrillic, etc)

Getting started

Installation:

    go get -u github.com/abadojack/whatlanggo

Simple usage example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/abadojack/whatlanggo"
)

func main() {
	info := whatlanggo.Detect("Foje funkcias kaj foje ne funkcias")
	fmt.Println("Language:", whatlanggo.LangToString(info.Lang), "Script:", whatlanggo.Scripts[info.Script])
}

Blacklisting and whitelisting

import "github.com/abadojack/whatlanggo"

//Blacklist
options := whatlanggo.Options{
	Blacklist: map[whatlanggo.Lang]bool{
		whatlanggo.Ydd: true,
	},
}

info := whatlanggo.DetectWithOptions("האקדמיה ללשון העברית", options)

fmt.Println("Language:", whatlanggo.LangToString(info.Lang), "Script:", whatlanggo.Scripts[info.Script])

//Whitelist
options1 := whatlanggo.Options{
	Whitelist: map[whatlanggo.Lang]bool{
		whatlanggo.Epo: true,
		whatlanggo.Ukr: true,
	},
}

info = whatlanggo.DetectWithOptions("Mi ne scias", options1)
fmt.Println("Language:", whatlanggo.LangToString(info.Lang), "Script:", whatlanggo.Scripts[info.Script])

For more details, please check the documentation.

TODO

Add reliability metrics in the Info struct.

License

MIT

Derivation

whatlanggo is a derivative of Franc (JavaScript, MIT) by Titus Wormer.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to greyblake (Potapov Sergey) for creating whatlang-rs from where I got the idea and logic.