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Language Monitoring in Alerts

Discover which languages you can monitor through your Alert

Rodrigo Araujo avatar
Written by Rodrigo Araujo
Updated over a week ago

Within your Mention Alerts, you have the option of applying language filters to monitor or block specific data on the web and social media. Mention utilizes data from the web and social media to identify the language of each publication we fetch.

In this article, we will go over the steps to apply language filters for each alert.

⚙️ Language filters only apply to keyword searches in your alerts. They will not affect the Monitored Pages and Review Website URLs that are added to your alert.


Apply Language Filters to Alerts

In total, Mention directly offers over 44 language options that you can choose from. Each Mention Alert offers a unique method of configuring language filters.Let's go over the process for each type of alert:

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Basic Alerts

You can modify your language filters at any time using the alert configuration page. When you create an alert or edit your alert, the configuration page will display a tab titled Countries and Languages:

By default, your alert will be set to one language but you can choose up to 10 languages to monitor by clicking on the drop-down menu.

⚙️ If you adjust your language filters after alert creation, Mention will begin to monitor new mentions in the languages that you chose.

❗ On the Basic Alert, you will need to have at least 1 language picked.

💡 Mention Tip - Alert Assistant

The Alert Creation Assistant will provide you with recommendations for country or language filters in your alert. After you create a keyword search, the assistant will let you know which countries and languages mention your keywords the most.

To learn more, check out this article: Optimize your Search with the Alert Assistant

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Standard Alerts

You can modify your language filters at any time using the alert configuration page. When you create an alert or edit your alert, the Alert Creation page will display a tab titled Countries and Languages.

By default, your Alert will be monitoring all languages. If you would like to choose specific languages to monitor, please click on the slider titled 'I want to monitor specific languages' and you will gain access to the language menu:

When you click on the drop-down menu, a list of the supported languages will appear and you can choose up to 10 languages to monitor.

⚙️ If you do not choose a language, Mention will simply monitor the web for any publications that contain your keywords regardless of language.

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Advanced Alerts

Within the Advanced Alert, you will have access to boolean operators dedicated to monitoring or blocking languages from your alerts.

The Advanced Alert offers the lang: operator that you can use with one or multiple language codes in your alert.

Here is an example:

This query will monitor mentions of the text Spotify in the English or Spanish language.

📖 For a full tutorial on language monitoring in advanced alerts and the list of language codes available, please check out this article: Language Codes in Advanced Alerts


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