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detect_language

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

Usage

Call or Deploy detect_language ?
Call detect_language directly

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

Public BigFunctions Datasets

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...
Deploy detect_language in your project

Why deploy?

  • You may prefer to deploy detect_language in your own project to build and manage your own catalog of functions.
  • This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs).
  • Get started by reading the framework page

Deployment

detect_language function can be deployed with:

pip install bigfunctions
bigfun get detect_language
bigfun deploy detect_language

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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