content: """Build a language detector model
  
  The goal of this exercise is to train a linear classifier on text features
  that represent sequences of up to 3 consecutive characters so as to be
  recognize natural languages by using the frequencies of short character
  sequences as 'fingerprints'.
  
  """
  # Author: Olivier Grisel <olivier.grisel@ensta.org>
  # License: Simplified BSD
  
  import sys
  
  from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
  from sklearn.linear_model import Perceptron
  from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
  from sklearn.datasets import load_files
  from sklearn.cross_validation import train_test_split
  from sklearn import metrics
  
  
  # The training data folder must be passed as first argument
  languages_data_folder = sys.argv[1]
  dataset = load_files(languages_data_folder)
  
  # Split the dataset in training and test set:
  docs_train, docs_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
      dataset.data, dataset.target, test_size=0.5)
  
  
  # TASK: Build a an vectorizer that splits strings into sequence of 1 to 3
  # characters instead of word tokens
  
  # TASK: Build a vectorizer / classifier pipeline using the previous analyzer
  # the pipeline instance should stored in a variable named clf
  
  # TASK: Fit the pipeline on the training set
  
  # TASK: Predict the outcome on the testing set in a variable named y_predicted
  
  # Print the classification report
  print(metrics.classification_report(y_test, y_predicted,
                                      target_names=dataset.target_names))
  
  # Plot the confusion matrix
  cm = metrics.confusion_matrix(y_test, y_predicted)
  print(cm)
  
  #import pylab as pl
  #pl.matshow(cm, cmap=pl.cm.jet)
  #pl.show()
  
  # Predict the result on some short new sentences:
  sentences = [
      u'This is a language detection test.',
      u'Ceci est un test de d\xe9tection de la langue.',
      u'Dies ist ein Test, um die Sprache zu erkennen.',
  ]
  predicted = clf.predict(sentences)
  
  for s, p in zip(sentences, predicted):
      print(u'The language of "%s" is "%s"' % (s, dataset.target_names[p]))
  