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 - [CogCompNLP](https://github.com/CogComp/cogcomp-nlp) - Provides common annotators for plain text input.
 - [CoreNLP](https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/corenlp.shtml) - Provides a set of fundamental tools for tasks like tagging, named entity recognition, and sentiment analysis.
 - [DKPro](https://dkpro.github.io) - Collection of reusable NLP tools for linguistic pre-processing, machine learning, lexical resources, etc.
+- [Lingua](https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua) - Natural language detection library, especially suited for short paragraphs of text.
 - [LingPipe](http://alias-i.com/lingpipe) - Toolkit for tasks ranging from POS tagging to sentiment analysis.
 
 ### Networking