[Corpora-List] Corpora for language identification training?

[Lluis Padro]

En/na Dean Jones ha escrit:
> I'd like to train a classifier to perform language identification,
> and, before I go ahead and create a corpus for this purpose, I'd like
> to ask whether anyone on this list knows of anything suitable. The
> main reason I'm asking is that I'm particularly interested in  finding
> something which has been used in the comparative evaluation of
> language identification systems. Languages that we'd initially like to
> cover are English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. Thanks for any
> help,
      You can try our MM-based identifier.   It's GPL, easy to train for 
new languages, and it already includes models
   for most of the languages you mention

      Visit http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~nlp  under "resources" menu

          Best
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