Package org.mycore.common

Class MCRLanguageDetector

java.lang.Object

org.mycore.common.MCRLanguageDetector

public class MCRLanguageDetector
extends Object

Detects the language of a given text string by looking for typical words and word endings and used characters for each language. German, english, french, arabic, chinese, japanese, greek and hebrew are currently supported.

Version:

$Revision$ $Date$

Author:

Frank Lützenkirchen

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MCRLanguageDetector()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	detectLanguage(String text)	Detects the language of a given text string.
static String	detectLanguageByCharacter(String text)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

MCRLanguageDetector

public MCRLanguageDetector()

Method Details

detectLanguageByCharacter

public static String detectLanguageByCharacter(String text)

detectLanguage

public static String detectLanguage(String text)

Detects the language of a given text string.

Parameters:

text - the text string

Returns:

the language code: de, en, fr, ar ,el, zh, he, jp or null