README.md

metadata

license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - text-classification
  - language-identification
library_name: fasttext
datasets:
  - cis-lmu/GlotSparse
  - cis-lmu/GlotStoryBook
metrics:
  - f1

GlotLID

Description

GlotLID is a Fasttext language identification (LID) model for around 2000 languages.

How to use

Here is how to use this model to detect the language of a given text:

>>> import fasttext
>>> from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

>>> model_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="cis-lmu/glotlid", filename="model.bin")
>>> model = fasttext.load_model(model_path)
>>> model.predict("Hello, world!")

License

The model is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

References

If you use this model, please cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{
  kargaran2023glotlid,
  title={{GlotLID}: Language Identification for Low-Resource Languages},
  author={Kargaran, Amir Hossein and Imani, Ayyoob and Yvon, Fran{\c{c}}ois and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
  booktitle={The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year={2023},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=dl4e3EBz5j}
}