Language Detection in Python Using Lingua

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Have you ever needed to automatically detect the language of a text in your Python application? Whether you’re building a translation service, content classification system, or multilingual application, accurate language detection is crucial. Today, we’ll explore Lingua, a powerful language detection library for Python that offers excellent accuracy and ease of use.

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What is Lingua?

Lingua is a language detection library that supports multiple languages and provides highly accurate results. It’s particularly effective for short texts and offers features like confidence scoring and custom configuration options.

Getting Started

First, let’s install Lingua using pip:

pip install lingua-language-detector

Basic Usage

Let’s start with a simple example of how to detect the language of a text:

from lingua import Language, LanguageDetectorBuilder

# Create a detector for specific languages
detector = LanguageDetectorBuilder.from_languages(
    Language.ENGLISH,
    Language.FRENCH,
    Language.GERMAN…