IBM Language Translator · Example Payload

Identify Language

Example of identifying the language of an unknown text string using IBM Watson Language Translator V3

TranslationNatural Language ProcessingMachine TranslationIBM WatsonAIText AnalysisDeprecated

Identify Language is an example object payload from IBM Language Translator, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

summarydescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "summary": "Identify the language of input text",
  "description": "Example of identifying the language of an unknown text string using IBM Watson Language Translator V3",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.us-south.language-translator.watson.cloud.ibm.com/v3/identify?version=2018-05-01",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "text/plain",
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "Authorization": "Bearer <IAM_TOKEN>"
    },
    "body": "Cómo estás"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "languages": [
        {
          "language": "es",
          "confidence": 0.9978
        },
        {
          "language": "ca",
          "confidence": 0.0015
        },
        {
          "language": "pt",
          "confidence": 0.0004
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}