Welcome to a Statistical Text Analysis!
"Submit a text in a foreign language you don't recognize and find out what language it is."
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Auto-detect a language - Why?
There are more than 6,900 languages spoken around the world. Although the Top 10 languages are widespread, the language of any document - be it a text file or a webpage - still needs to be identified in the first place.
A simple method can do the job of an automatic detection amazingly well just by looking at how often specific combinations of letters appear in a text .
