Languages in Pulse

Primer automatically translates social media data from over 125 different languages to English. You can add search terms to your monitor in your desired language, or utilize the translation functionality to translate the social media posts that appear in your feed.

Please Note: When using English language terms in your monitor, we will provide all English and foreign language posts that match those English language terms, and provide the translation of those foreign language posts to English. If you add foreign language terms to your monitor, we will provide posts in that same language of the terms used. For example, using Chinese characters as search terms will only return posts that contain Chinese characters.

To translate the posts in your feed, first we detect the language of origin. To do this, we use language detection annotation along with a language identification model. If both models agree that the language can be identified, we will translate the post. Once a post is translated, it shows up in the form of a “Show/Hide Translation” button. If you would like to have all foreign language posts automatically translated to english, visit your Settings and User Profile page to adjust your preferences. The tweet below shows the translation from Japanese:

The languages Primer supports for translation are:

If you have any questions about language translation, or would like to request additional languages, please reach out to the team at: [email protected]