im-dpaul / nlp-language-identification

A language identification model using pretrained FastText embeddings from HuggingFace, accurately detecting languages in text data for enhanced text classification and NLP applications.

Language Classification with FastText Embeddings

This project demonstrates a language identification model built using pre-trained FastText embeddings from HuggingFace, efficiently identifying languages in text data. This robust tool ensures precise detection of languages in various text inputs, enhancing text classification tasks and natural language processing applications with high accuracy and reliability.

Table of Contents

• Key Features
• Implementation
• Conclusion

Key Features

• Leverages Pre-trained Embeddings: Employs pre-trained FastText language models from Hugging Face, offering efficient and accurate language detection capabilities.
• Easy Integration: Utilizes the fasttext library for straightforward model loading and prediction.
• High Accuracy and Reliability: Aims to provide precise language identification for various text inputs, enhancing the performance of text classification tasks and natural language processing applications.

Implementation

1. Library Installation: To get started with the project, you need to install the fasttext library using pip (!pip install fasttext).

2. Importing Libraries: Imports necessary libraries, including warnings, fasttext, and hf_hub_download from the huggingface_hub module.

3. Downloading Pre-trained Model: Downloads the pre-trained FastText language identification model from Hugging Face using hf_hub_download.

4. Loading the Model: Loads the downloaded model using fasttext.load_model().

5. Language Prediction: Demonstrates language prediction for different text snippets using model.predict().

   • "Hello, world!" (English)
   • "নমস্কার" (Bengali)
   • "こんにちは世界" (Japanese)

Conclusion

This project demonstrates the use of pretrained FastText embeddings from HuggingFace for language identification. The model provides accurate language detection, which is crucial for enhancing text classification tasks and other NLP applications.