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Features
Get started
Who uses Whatlang?
Documentation
Supported languages
Feature toggles
How does it work?
- How language recognition works?
- How is_reliable calculated?
Running benchmark
Comparison with alternatives
Ports and clones
Donations
Derivation
License
Contributors

Features

Supports 69 languages
100% written in Rust
Lightweight, fast and simple
Recognizes not only a language, but also a script (Latin, Cyrillic, etc)
Provides reliability information

Get started

Example:

use whatlang::{detect, Lang, Script};

fn main() {
    let text = "Ĉu vi ne volas eklerni Esperanton? Bonvolu! Estas unu de la plej bonaj aferoj!";

    let info = detect(text).unwrap();
    assert_eq!(info.lang(), Lang::Epo);
    assert_eq!(info.script(), Script::Latin);
    assert_eq!(info.confidence(), 1.0);
    assert!(info.is_reliable());
}

For more details (e.g. how to blacklist some languages) please check the documentation.

Who uses Whatlang?

Whatlang is used within the following big projects as direct or indirect dependency for language recognition. You're gonna be in a great company using Whatlang:

Sonic - fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend in Rust.
Meilisearch - an open-source, easy-to-use, blazingly fast, and hyper-relevant search engine built in Rust.

Feature toggles

Feature	Description
`enum-map`	`Lang` and `Script` implement `Enum` trait from enum-map
`arbitrary`	Support Arbitrary
`serde`	Implements `Serialize` and `Deserialize` for `Lang` and `Script`
`dev`	Enables `whatlang::dev` module which provides some internal API.<br/> It exists for profiling purposes and normal users are discouraged to to rely on this API.

How does it work?

How does the language recognition work?

The algorithm is based on the trigram language models, which is a particular case of n-grams. To understand the idea, please check the original whitepaper Cavnar and Trenkle '94: N-Gram-Based Text Categorization'.

How is `is_reliable` calculated?

It is based on the following factors:

How many unique trigrams are in the given text
How big is the difference between the first and the second(not returned) detected languages? This metric is called rate in the code base.

Therefore, it can be presented as 2d space with threshold functions, that splits it into "Reliable" and "Not reliable" areas. This function is a hyperbola and it looks like the following one:

For more details, please check a blog article Introduction to Rust Whatlang Library and Natural Language Identification Algorithms.

Make tasks

make bench - run performance benchmarks
make doc - generate and open doc
make test - run tests
make watch - watch changes and run tests

Comparison with alternatives

	Whatlang	CLD2	CLD3
Implementation language	Rust	C++	C++
Languages	68	83	107
Algorithm	trigrams	quadgrams	neural network
Supported Encoding	UTF-8	UTF-8	?
HTML support	no	yes	?

Ports and clones

whatlang-ffi - C bindings
whatlanggo - whatlang clone for Go language
whatlang-py - bindings for Python
whatlang-rb - bindings for Ruby
whatlangex - bindings for Elixir

Donations

You can support the project by donating NEAR tokens.

Our NEAR wallet address is whatlang.near

Derivation

Whatlang is a derivative work from Franc (JavaScript, MIT) by Titus Wormer.

License

Contributors

greyblake Potapov Sergey - creator, maintainer.
Dr-Emann Zachary Dremann - optimization and improvements
BaptisteGelez Baptiste Gelez - improvements
Vishesh Chopra - designed the logo
Joel Natividad - support of Tagalog
ManyTheFish - crazy optimization
Kerollmops Clément Renault - crazy optimization