Patent ID: 6711542
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: G06F,G10L

Abstract:
Method of identifying a language in which a text is composed as a string of characters, in whicha frequency distribution of letters in the text is ascertained, the ascertained frequency distribution is compared with corresponding frequency distributions of available languages, in order to ascertain similarity factors which indicate the similarity of the language of the text with the available languages, and the language for which the ascertained similarity factor is the greatest is established as the language of the text; wherein the length of the text is established and, depending on the length of the text, one, two or more frequency distributions of letters and groups of letters in the text are ascertained; and the length of the text is established as the number of letters in the text and in that the number of letters in the text is compared with the number of letters in an alphabet, in order to determine which frequency distribution are ascertained.