Re: Language identification

[Juri Linkov]

>>> In `auto-mode-alist' you can see that with the exception of
>>> `archive-mode', `doc-view-mode' and `image-mode', all remaining
>>> modes are programming text modes.  It would be more useful
>>> to identify file types for these modes that libmagic can't do.
>>> Do you know a library that identifies programming languages?
>>> Such a library might be implemented using a Bayesian classifier
>>> trained on a sufficiently large corpus of different programming
>>> languages.
>>
>> N-Gram algorithms is could be used to identify languages - it simpler
>> than bayes, and requires smaller database
>
> Sorry, I skipped, that this was about programming languages, not real
> languages.

It would be interesting to try using N-Gram algorithms for programming
languages and see how well they perform.  For example, most frequently
used bigram "/*" belongs to C, most frequently used trigram ";;;" belongs
to Lisp, etc.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/