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Ted Dunning commented on TIKA-369:
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It is hard to object, but it would be good to replicate the accuracy numbers on the kind of text that Tika typically sees.
                
> Improve accuracy of language detection
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>                 Key: TIKA-369
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-369
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: languageidentifier
>    Affects Versions: 0.6
>            Reporter: Ken Krugler
>            Assignee: Ken Krugler
>         Attachments: lingdet-mccs.pdf, Surprise and Coincidence.pdf, textcat.pdf
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> Currently the LanguageProfile code uses 3-grams to find the best language profile using Pearson's chi-square test. This has three issues:
> 1. The results aren't very good for short runs of text. Ted Dunning's paper (attached) indicates that a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) test works much better, which would then make language detection faster due to less text needing to be processed.
> 2. The current LanguageIdentifier.isReasonablyCertain() method uses an exact value as a threshold for certainty. This is very sensitive to the amount of text being processed, and thus gives false negative results for short runs of text.
> 3. Certainty should also be based on how much better the result is for language X, compared to the next best language. If two languages both had identical sum-of-squares values, and this value was below the threshold, then the result is still not very certain.

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