Language Detection Using N-Grams

https://github.com/melanie-t/twitter-language-detection

Project

This project uses Naive Bayes Classification for Natural Language Processing. The goal of the project is to detect the language (in a pre-specified list) of tweets using variations of N-Grams models. The languages supported are:

• Basque (eu)
• Catalan (ca)
• Galician (gl)
• Spanish (es)
• English (en)
• Portuguese (pt)

Requirements

• Python Version 3.7+
• Required Python packages
  • numpy

Setting Up Project

1. Download the project via clone (on Git Repository) or ZIP file and extract the folder
2. Open the folder (twitter-language-detection) as a Python project with your choice of IDE
   • Ensure that your Python interpreter is set to Python 3.7
   • Set working directory to twitter-language-detection/src

Running the Project

1. Run Main.py
2. Enter the absolute path to the test file
3. The trace and evaluation files will be saved in src/output