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Jan Høydahl commented on TIKA-568:
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Or perhaps better, a getProbability() method returning the probability of the
language being accurate, with 1.0 being 100% probable. It's easier for clients
to relate to a scale between 0.0-1.0 and then we also hide the implementation
detail of the distance algorithm.
> Language Detection isReasonablyCertain() hides valuable information
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> Key: TIKA-568
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-568
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Grant Ingersoll
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: TIKA-568.patch
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> LanguageIdentifier.isReasonablyCertain() hardcodes a threshold for language
> detection, which is fine, except applications should be allowed to decide
> what threshold suits them. For instance, how was 0.022 decided?
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