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detect_language

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✅ You can call this detect_language bigfunction directly from your Google Cloud Project (no install required).

  • This detect_language function is deployed in bigfunctions GCP project in 39 datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions. You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets (otherwise you may have a function not found error).
  • Function is public, so it can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
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Public BigFunctions Datasets:

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...

Description

Signature

detect_language(text)

Description

Detects text language (using franc-min javascript library).

Returns a three-letter language code (eng for english for example). Returns und for undefined if it could not detect the language or if the text is too short. All language codes are defined here

Examples

select bigfunctions.eu.detect_language('I love this project so much')
select bigfunctions.us.detect_language('I love this project so much')
select bigfunctions.europe_west1.detect_language('I love this project so much')
+----------+
| language |
+----------+
| eng      |
+----------+

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