corpusLanguage

R2026b

Detect language of text

Syntax

language = corpusLanguage(str)

Description

Use corpusLanguage to detect language of text.

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

language = corpusLanguage(str) detects the language of the text in str. The detected language can be more accurate when you use longer input text.

Examples

Detect Language of Text

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

str — Input text

string array | character vector | cell array of character vectors

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

language — Detected language

'en' | 'ja' | 'de' | 'ko'

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