language-detector
Detect language of text with confidence scores, support for 50+ languages, and batch text classification.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Language Detector Claude skill is a high-performance utility designed to automatically identify the language of text strings or bulk datasets. Supporting over 50 languages with precise confidence scoring, it enables users to automate multilingual workflows, streamline data preprocessing, and enhance global communication by accurately classifying text origins in real-time or via batch CSV processing.
Use Cases
- Automated Support Routing: Instantly detect the language of incoming customer tickets to route them to the appropriate native-speaking support team.
- Data Cleaning & Preprocessing: Analyze large CSV files to identify and filter text by language before performing sentiment analysis or machine translation.
- Content Moderation: Automatically detect the language of user-generated content to apply region-specific community guidelines and moderation rules.
- Multilingual Document Organization: Sort and tag extensive document libraries or knowledge bases based on the primary language detected in each file.
- Global Market Research: Process social media feeds or web-scraped data to categorize consumer feedback by linguistic demographic.
| name | language-detector |
|---|---|
| description | Detect language of text with confidence scores, support for 50+ languages, and batch text classification. |
Language Detector
Identify the language of text with confidence scoring.
Features
- 50+ Languages: Wide language support
- Confidence Scores: Probability estimates
- Batch Detection: Process multiple texts
- CSV Support: Analyze text columns
- Multiple Algorithms: Character n-gram analysis
CLI Usage
python language_detector.py --text "Hello world" --output result.json
python language_detector.py --file texts.csv --column text --output languages.csv
Dependencies
- langdetect>=1.0.9
- pandas>=2.0.0