Language Functions

Natural language processing functions.

Summary

Functions

detect_language

Detect the language of text, returning the native language name

Signature: string -> string | null

Examples:

# Detect English
detect_language('This is English text.') -> \"English\"
# Detect Spanish (native name)
detect_language('Esto es texto en español.') -> \"Español\"
# Detect French (native name)
detect_language('Ceci est du texte français.') -> \"Français\"
# Empty or undetectable returns null
detect_language('') -> null

CLI Usage:

echo '{}' | jpx 'detect_language(`"This is English text."`)'

detect_language_confidence

Detect language and return confidence score (0.0-1.0)

Signature: string -> number | null

Examples:

# High confidence
detect_language_confidence('This is definitely English text.') -> 0.95
# Low confidence for short text
detect_language_confidence('Hi') -> 0.3
# Empty returns null
detect_language_confidence('') -> null

CLI Usage:

echo '{}' | jpx 'detect_language_confidence(`"This is definitely English text."`)'

detect_language_info

Detect language and return full detection info object

Signature: string -> object | null

Examples:

# Full detection info
detect_language_info('This is a test.') -> {language: 'English', code: 'eng', script: 'Latin', confidence: 0.9, reliable: true}
# Access language field
detect_language_info('Bonjour').language -> 'French'
# Check reliability
detect_language_info('Hola').reliable -> true/false
# Empty returns null
detect_language_info('') -> null

CLI Usage:

echo '{}' | jpx 'detect_language_info(`"This is a test."`)'

detect_language_iso

Detect the language of text, returning the ISO 639-3 code

Signature: string -> string | null

Examples:

# English ISO code
detect_language_iso('This is English text.') -> \"eng\"
# Spanish ISO code
detect_language_iso('Esto es texto en español.') -> \"spa\"
# German ISO code
detect_language_iso('Dies ist deutscher Text.') -> \"deu\"
# Empty or undetectable returns null
detect_language_iso('') -> null

CLI Usage:

echo '{}' | jpx 'detect_language_iso(`"This is English text."`)'

detect_script

Detect the script (writing system) of text

Signature: string -> string | null

Examples:

# Latin script
detect_script('Hello world') -> \"Latin\"
# Cyrillic script
detect_script('Привет мир') -> \"Cyrillic\"
# Arabic script
detect_script('مرحبا بالعالم') -> \"Arabic\"
# Japanese Hiragana
detect_script('こんにちは') -> \"Hiragana\"

CLI Usage:

echo '{}' | jpx 'detect_script(`"Hello world"`)'