identify language?

[jind]

i have to make some sort of program, that can identify whether the text input is english, spanish or french.any key things...or tips ...or ideas to accomplish it....?thanks.actually there are some tools online that can identify a language for you...but i couldn't find coding...although i am looking at some papers in this area...

[Shaggy8503]

You need to get the dictionary of each language that you want to identify. By dictionary i dont mean another program(may be if the other program has an api to connect and get data then it is possible) , you should get a lot of words from the language and put inside the database. And based on the input you should search inside and if the maximum matches are found from the sentence then you know it belongs to one particular language.

[Colanth5009]

A tip - if this is a school assignment, and the class isn't "How to get very frustrated very quickly", tell the instructor to get real.There are a few very large companies that have been working on that problem for many decades - representing man-centuries of work - and they've gotten about nowhere so far. A neural network is about the best bet, but the best ones are pitiful for a task like that, and the less text you have as input, the worse they get. (Is "Let's palaver" English or Spanish? How about "An hors d'oeuvre, s'il vous plait?")

[MuddyRivers]

This program is to make a site in 14 different Languages I dint think it will identify an incoming Language tho.http://www.websitestranslator.com/?aff=cb&hop=wacasassa