{"id":618,"date":"2002-11-14T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2002-11-15T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=618"},"modified":"2004-10-22T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T04:30:55","slug":"spot-the-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"spot the language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone wrote to my favorite list,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI received this spam today. Does anyone know what language it is?  (And is there a tool, pref. on the web and free, that can take a piece of text and guess what language it&#8217;s written in?)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d never have thought to look for such a tool, but <a href=http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~tahnan\/>Lance Nathan<\/a> came through with three: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=http:\/\/quebec.alis.com\/castil\/essai_silc.cgi?lang_form=en>&iquest;Qu&eacute;?, the System for Identification of Language and Character Encoding<\/a> <\/li>\n<li> <a href=http:\/\/rali.iro.umontreal.ca\/SILC\/>Syst&egrave;me d&#8217;Identification de la Langue et du Codage<\/a> <\/li>\n<li> <a href=http:\/\/www.xrce.xerox.com\/competencies\/content-analysis\/tools\/guesser>Content Analysis Language Identifier<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone wrote to my favorite list, I received this spam today. Does anyone know what language it is? (And is there a tool, pref. on the web and free, that can take a piece of text and guess what language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}