Last updated: Oct 09, 2024
The Watson Natural Language Processing Language Detection identifies the language of input text.
Block name
lang-detect_izumo_multi_stock
Supported languages
The Language Detection block is able to detect the following languages:
af, ar, bs, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, es, fi, fr, he, hi, hr, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, nn, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sr, sv, tr, zh_cn, zh_tw
Capabilities
Use this block to detect the language of an input text.
Dependencies on other blocks
None
Code sample
# Load the language detection model
lang_detection_model = watson_nlp.load('lang-detect_izumo_multi_stock')
# Run it on input text
detected_lang = lang_detection_model.run('IBM announced new advances in quantum computing')
# Retrieve language ISO code
print(detected_lang.to_iso_format())
Output of the code sample:
EN
Parent topic: Watson Natural Language Processing task catalog