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Preferred term

Language identification  

Type

  • Named individual

  • Operation

Definition

  • 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.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Automatic Language Identification
  • Language recognition

Description

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

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URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/omtd-share/LanguageIdentification

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