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---
library_name: fasttext
tags:
- text-classification
- language-identification
---
This is a fastText-based language classification model from the paper [The first neural machine translation system for the Erzya language](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09368).
It supports 323 languages used in Wikipedia (as of July 2022), and has extended support of the Erzya (`myv`) and Moksha (`mdf`) languages.
Example usage:
```Python
import fasttext
import urllib.request
import os
model_path = 'lid.323.ftz'
url = 'https://huggingface.co/slone/fastText-LID-323/resolve/main/lid.323.ftz'
if not os.path.exists(model_path):
urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, model_path) # or just download it manually
model = fasttext.load_model(model_path)
languages, scores = model.predict("эрзянь кель", k=3) # k is the number of returned hypotheses
```
The model was trained on texts of articles randomly sampled from Wikipedia. It works better with sentences and longer texts than with words, and may be sensitive to noise.