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''"The limits of my language are the limits of my world." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)'' | ''"The limits of my language are the limits of my world." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)'' | ||
Idiomaggio is a twitter bot that detects the language of tweets and responds automatically in the right tongue. In a multilingual world there can be many different languages surround you. With the help of Idiomaggio you can figure out which language is spoken | Idiomaggio is a twitter bot that detects the language of tweets and responds automatically in the right tongue. In a multilingual world there can be many different languages surround you. With the help of Idiomaggio you can figure out which language is spoken. | ||
The twitter bot is working with the NLTK library; mainly with the built-in function ''stop words''. Linking words, conjunctions, articles and pronouns are words that make a language speakable. However, they don't create the meaning of a text. Idiomaggio filters the stop words out and detects their language. In a second step, the tweet will be responded in the correct language. | The twitter bot is working with the NLTK library; mainly with the built-in function ''stop words''. Linking words, conjunctions, articles and pronouns are words that make a language speakable. However, they don't create the meaning of a text. Idiomaggio filters the stop words out and detects their language. In a second step, the tweet will be responded in the correct language. | ||