Languages

• There is now support for the Maori language which was contributed to the Rust implementation of Lingua. (#93)

Features

• Language models are now loaded asynchronously and in parallel using Kotlin coroutines, making this step more performant. (#84)
• Language Models can now be loaded either lazily (default) or eagerly. (#79)
• Instead of loading multiple copies of the language models into memory for each separate instance of LanguageDetector, multiple instances now share the same language models and access them asynchronously. (#91)

Improvements

• Language detection for sentences with more than 120 characters now performs more quickly by iterating through trigrams only which is enough to achieve high detection accuracy.
• Textual input that includes logograms from Chinese, Japanese or Korean is now split at each logogram and not only at whitespace. This provides for more reliable language detection for sentences that include multi-language content. (#85)

Bug Fixes

• For an odd number of words as input, the method LanguageDetector.computeLanguageConfidenceValues computed wrong values under certain circumstances. (#87)
• When Lingua was used in projects with an explictly set Kotlin version which differed from Lingua's implicitly set version in the Gradle script, several errors occurred during runtime. By explicitly setting Lingua's Kotlin version, these errors are now hopefully gone. (#88, #89)
• Errors in the rule engine for the Latvian language have been resolved. (#92)