Pluf_Text_Lang Class Reference

List of all members.

Static Public Member Functions
static	detect ($string, $is_clean=false)
static	docNgrams ($string, $n=3)
static	makeNgrams ($word, $n=3)
static	ngramDistance ($n1, $n2)

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Detailed Description

Detect the language of a text.

list($lang, $confid) = Pluf_Text_Lang::detect($string);

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Member Function Documentation

static Pluf_Text_Lang::detect	(	$	string,
		$	is_clean = false
	)			[static]

Given a string, returns the language.

Algorithm by Cavnar et al. 94.

Parameters:

	string
	bool	Is the string clean (false)

Returns:

array Language, Confidence

static Pluf_Text_Lang::docNgrams	(	$	string,
		$	n = 3
	)			[static]

Returns the sorted n-grams of a document.

FIXME: We should detect the proportion of thai/chinese/japanese characters and switch to unigram instead of n-grams if the proportion is greater than 50%.

Parameters:

	string	The clean document.
	int	Maximum size of the n grams (3)

Returns:

array N-Grams

static Pluf_Text_Lang::makeNgrams	(	$	word,
		$	n = 3
	)			[static]

Returns the n-grams of rank n of the word.

Parameters:

string

Word.

Returns:

array N-grams

static Pluf_Text_Lang::ngramDistance	(	$	n1,
		$	n2
	)			[static]

Return the distance between two document ngrams.

Parameters:

	array	n-gram
	array	n-gram

Returns:

integer distance

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• pluf/src/Pluf/Text/Lang.php