Lingua 1.1.0

Features

• The new method LanguageDetectorBuilder.WithLowAccuracyMode() has been introduced. By activating it, detection accuracy for short text is reduced in favor of a smaller memory footprint and faster detection performance. (#17)

• The new method LanguageDetector.ComputeLanguageConfidence() has been introduced. It allows to retrieve the confidence value for one specific language only, given the input text. (#19)

Improvements

• The computation of the confidence values has been revised and the min-max normalization algorithm is now applied to the values, making them better comparable by behaving more like real probabilities. (#16)

• The language models are now serialized as protocol buffers instead of json. Thanks to this change, they are now loaded into memory twice as fast as before. (#22)

Bug Fixes

• The unigram counts in the statistics engine were not retrieved correctly. This has been fixed, producing more correct detection results. (#14)

Compatibility

• The lowest supported Go version is 1.18 now. Older versions are no longer compatible with this library.

Miscellaneous

• The library now has a fresh and colorful new logo. Why? Well, why not? (-: