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"Language" (Text Content Type)

See Also
- TextCases
- TextPosition
- TextSentences
- Containing
- LanguageData
- Entity Types
- Language
- Interpreter Types
- Language
- ComputedLanguage
- Text Contents
- Religion
- Mythology
- Alphabet
- WritingScript
- Word
- Country
- HistoricalCountry
Related Guides
- Text Content Types
- See Also
  - TextCases
  - TextPosition
  - TextSentences
  - Containing
  - LanguageData
  - Entity Types
  - Language
  - Interpreter Types
  - Language
  - ComputedLanguage
  - Text Contents
  - Religion
  - Mythology
  - Alphabet
  - WritingScript
  - Word
  - Country
  - HistoricalCountry
- Related Guides
  - Text Content Types

"Language" (Text Content Type)

Text identified as the name of a language.

Details

"Language" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
"Language" corresponds to any mention of a language (real or not real) in the context of the text.
Homonyms of languages that are not languages should not be detected as "Language" (if the context allows disambiguation).
TextCases[…,"Language""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "Language", as Interpreter["Language"] does.
Any specific "Language" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.

Examples

Basic Examples (3)

Find occurrences of languages in a text:

Get the result as a list of "Language" entities:

A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["Language"] to text snippets:

Get properties about occurrences of languages:

Find mentions of English in a text:

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