How to guess the language of a given textstring?

[Roman]

Does anybody know an easy way (or tool) to guess the language of a
given text string?

e.g.
Feeding in "This is an example." --> should return "english" or ISO
code
Feeding in "Das ist ein Beispiel." --> should return "german" or ISO
code
Feeding in "Esto es un ejemplo." --> should return "spanish" or ISO
code

I would prefer something more lightweight than using nltk/corpus/...

And it's ok if the success ratio is just about 90% or so.

Roman

 

[Lonnie Princehouse]

A search to see how many words from the text belong to
english/german/spanish common word dictionaries would be an easy way to
get a crude guess at the language.

 

[gene tani]

Does anybody know an easy way (or tool) to guess the language of a
given text string?

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/355807
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/326576

 

[Roman]

Hi

This is what I'm looking for.
Thank you.

Roman