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This is the subject of natural language processing. There is no right answer, there are just better answers. If you go onto the ACM Portal website and search for language identification you'll find plenty of papers on different methods. Ah, interesting! Thank you for directing me there. Some of the...

Yeah, there's always that question between what's fun to play with and what's actually useful for people to use. Pick a statistic to look at--frequency of digrams (consecutive pairs of characters) seems to work well--and record those statistics from the given text and also from a text you know the l...

Are there such things as online language identifiers, where you could type in some text and it would try to tell you what language it is? It seems like that would be an easier task than trying to machine-translate a text, and it would be useful, or at least neat, even for languages in a limited set ...