org.eclipse.smila.common.language

Interface LanguageIdentifyService

All Known Implementing Classes:

TikaLanguageIdentifyService

public interface LanguageIdentifyService

Interface of a service that can identify the language of a text.

See Also:

Language

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getAlternativeName(java.lang.String isoLanguage)
java.util.Set<java.lang.String>	getSupportedLanguages()
Language	identify(java.lang.String content) detect the language of the given text.

Method Detail

identify

Language identify(java.lang.String content)

detect the language of the given text.

Returns:

a Language object describing the detection result, or null if detection was not possible.

getSupportedLanguages

java.util.Set<java.lang.String> getSupportedLanguages()

Returns:

the ISO-639 language codes of all languages this service is able to detect.

getAlternativeName

java.lang.String getAlternativeName(java.lang.String isoLanguage)

Parameters:

isoLanguage - ISO language code.

Returns:

alternative name of this language, or null if the service does not know a name for this language.