Source: libexttextcat
Version: 3.4.4-1
Severity: minor

Package descriptions for the various libexttextcat packages say: "It
was primarily developed for language guessing". It's unclear whether
this refers to computer languages (C vs. Python) or natural languages
(English vs. Estonian). Given that it's a software library, it could
easily be either one.

Mentioning Cavnar & Trenkle, "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization" is
*suggestive*, but users who aren't familiar with that work shouldn't
have to guess what it implies.

If it can recognize natural languages, it would be really nice if the
description said so. In addition to being more clear, it would
probably help package searches if the string "natural language"
appeared in the package description.

For bonus points, the common abbreviation "NLP" (for "natural language
processing") could appear as well, which would probably aid
computational linguists, if no one else. But that's much less
important.

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