README.md

Lingua

Lingua is an Elixir wrapper for the Rust lingua crate with Rustler.

Summary

Lingua is a NIF-based bridge for the lingua Rust language detection library.

Usage

iex> Lingua.detect("this is definitely English")
{:ok, :english}

iex> Lingua.detect("וזה בעברית")
{:ok, :hebrew}

iex> Lingua.detect("państwowych", builder_option: :with_languages, languages: [:english, :russian, :polish])
{:ok, :polish}

iex> Lingua.detect("ѕидови", builder_option: :all_languages_with_cyrillic_script)
{:ok, :macedonian}

iex> Lingua.detect("כלב", builder_option: :with_languages, languages: [:english, :russian, :polish])
{:ok, :no_match}

iex> Lingua.detect("what in the world is this", builder_option: :with_languages, languages: [:english, :russian, :hebrew], compute_language_confidence_values: true)
{:ok, [english: 1.0]}

Installation

The package can be installed by adding lingua to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:lingua, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/lingua.