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Other Languages in Relativity

Sean O'Shea
May 3, 2021
1 min read

After running the structured analytics set for language identification in Relativity, you may see many documents for which the Docs_Languages::Language field is set to 'Other'.

There are several reasons why this can happen. The analyzed document may consist entirely of numeric data:

. . . documents may be in a language other than the three most common languages Relativity analytics identified, or documents may be in a language which is not one of the 173 languages that Relativity can identify.

My own testing has shown that Relativity will list the language as 'Other' for documents which consist of long lists of names:

. . . or entirely of graphics: