[OPENNLP-788] Add a language detection component

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.1
• Labels: help-wanted
• Assignee: William Colen
• Reporter: Jörn Kottmann
• Created: 04/Jun/15 12:50
• Updated: 16/Jun/17 10:46
• Resolved: 16/Jun/17 10:46

Description

Many of the components in OpenNLP are sensitive to the input language. It would be nice if OpenNLP would have a component to detect the language of an input text.

Two commonly used solutions today are:
Apache Tikas Language Identifier
Language Detection from Shuyo, Nakatani

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #143
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #230