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Ken Krugler commented on TIKA-369:
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Initial results from integrating language-detector (see TIKA-1723) are
promising enough that I'm going to go ahead and close this issue, unless
somebody objects in the next day or so.
> Improve accuracy of language detection
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> Key: TIKA-369
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-369
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: languageidentifier
> Affects Versions: 0.6
> Reporter: Ken Krugler
> Assignee: Ken Krugler
> Attachments: Surprise and Coincidence.pdf, lingdet-mccs.pdf,
> textcat.pdf
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> Currently the LanguageProfile code uses 3-grams to find the best language
> profile using Pearson's chi-square test. This has three issues:
> 1. The results aren't very good for short runs of text. Ted Dunning's paper
> (attached) indicates that a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) test works much
> better, which would then make language detection faster due to less text
> needing to be processed.
> 2. The current LanguageIdentifier.isReasonablyCertain() method uses an exact
> value as a threshold for certainty. This is very sensitive to the amount of
> text being processed, and thus gives false negative results for short runs of
> text.
> 3. Certainty should also be based on how much better the result is for
> language X, compared to the next best language. If two languages both had
> identical sum-of-squares values, and this value was below the threshold, then
> the result is still not very certain.
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