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In a previous article, lhp@daimi.aau.dk (Lasse Hiller|e Petersen) says:
>> Rather than reinventing the wheel, I'd like to know whether someone knows
>> of a program for the automatic determination of the language of short
>> sentences, titles or subject lines.
>> 
>> Given a short piece of text, the program should output a (list of)
>> language(s) which the text is most likely to be in.
>> 
>> I think such a program could be based on the frequencies of syllables
>> or letter-pairs/triplets. Are there any good data collections of such
>> frequencies, at least for the European languages?

I can vouch for the approach - I wrote just such a program for a class
six or seven years ago. I fed it text in English/French/Spanish/German
and let it calculate the pair/triplet/whatever (it was selectable, I
think triplets and pairs both worked well) frequencies. It worked
very well - pretty much 100% accuracy on sentence-length samples of
unknown language, unless I deliberately tried to fool it.

I don't know where the source code ended up; it was in Prolog anyway.

-Marty