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corpusLanguage

Detect language of text

Since R2018b

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Syntax

language = corpusLanguage(str)

Description

Use corpusLanguage to detect language of text.

The function supports English, Japanese, German, and Korean text.

example

language = corpusLanguage(str) detects the language of the text in str.

Examples

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Detect the language of a string array of text.

str = [
    "恋の悩みで 苦しむ。"
    "空の星が輝きを増している。"];
language = corpusLanguage(str)
language = 
'ja'

Input Arguments

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Input text, specified as a string array, character vector, or cell array of character vectors.

Example: ["An example of a short sentence."; "A second short sentence."]

Data Types: string | char | cell

Output Arguments

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Detected language, returned as one of the following:

  • 'en' – Detected English text

  • 'ja' – Detected Japanese text

  • 'de' – Detected German text

  • 'ko' – Detected Korean text

Version History

Introduced in R2018b

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