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Dictionary of Terms for Language Resources and Language Technology Infrastructures

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language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > text and data mining > information extraction > language identification
language resources and technology infrastructure concept > operation > support operation > language identification

Preferred term

language identification  

Definition

  • the task/process of guessing what natural language a text or text segment is written in

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • automatic language identification
  • language recognition

Note

  • Automatic Language Identification (LID) is the process of identifying the natural language of a sample of speech or written text by an unknown speaker. Several important applications exist for LID, viz., as a front-end to, e.g., a call router in a telephone-based application or a multi-lingual speech recognition system.

Source

  • Μαρκόπουλος, Γ. (2015). Ορολογία Υπολογιστικής Γλωσσολογίας. Δελτίο Επιστημονικής Ορολογίας και Νεολογισμών 13. Διαθέσιμο σε: https://www.academia.edu/38285457/%CE%9F%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%A5%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%BB%CF%89%CF%83%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82_Computational_Linguistics_Terminology_

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http://w3id.org/clarin_el_dictionary/languageIdentification

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