# Hugging Face — Huggy Lingo: Using Machine Learning to Improve Language Metadata on the Hugging Face Hub

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-08-02
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/huggy-lingo
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2016-huggy-lingo-using-machine-learning-to-improve-language-metadata-on-the-hugging
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: facebook/fasttext-language-identification

Hugging Face is using the fastText language identification model to automatically detect and add language metadata to datasets on the Hub that lack it, improving discoverability.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/huggy-lingo:

> I'm excited to share some early experiments which seek to use machine learning to improve the metadata for datasets hosted on the Hugging Face Hub.

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