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    Thanks for the question, whitten! You raise a very interesting point. We definitely plan to contribute information back to Wikidata and, in fact, we already did as part of our expe…

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    Thanks a lot, freediver! This is Francesco, co-founder. We are using Entity Linking to detect entities in text. The algorithm takes into account context to disambiguate words, i.e.…

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    Ask HN: How much should you worry about patents when developing a product?

    If you're developing a product which uses advanced technology (developed by yourself), how much should you be worried that a part of what you are developing could already be patent…

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    > Techstars contributes $20,000, which is commonly used as a stipend to support living expenses during the program, and in return receives 6% common stock from each company. I was …

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    Just got the rejection mail, good luck everybody!

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    It's just one of the examples that came to my mind and that I thought was good. From what I know people working in pharma routinely have to search thousands of documents (e.g., res…

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    Well, you can obtain these results with Google, but not really in most scenarios. For example, if you search "cities in Palestine with more than 1000 inhabitants" you will get list…

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    We are working on Doqume ( http://doqume.com ) It is an enterprise search engine which departs from traditional keyword-based search in order to provide an easier way to run comple…

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    Comment #18120101

    Doqume.com A semantic search engine for documents, which makes data and information discovery more efficient We are currently working on improving the MVP and contacting potential …

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    This also happens very frequently when I'm connected through a VPN. Must be that the IP is blacklisted or something, but basically there's no way to go past the captcha because it …

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    I see many people here complaining about this feature, and while I completely agree with them I also find it difficult to imagine an effective way to clearly explain these concerns…

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    Comment #18013400

    What happened in Lisbon?

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    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's relevant: if you open your service to EU users you have to comply to GDPR as far as their data is concerned. Am I missing somethin…

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    Comment #17762095

    Doqume ( http://doqume.com ) It's a way to search text documents by specifying complex semantic conditions on items that have to be matched instead of simple keywords. I think it's…

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    I'm curious what these simulations are about, would you care to elaborate?

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    Comment #17574144

    Can you use WolframAlpha to search news articles mentioning "members of al-qaeda" or scientific papers mentioning any "drug for the treatment of schizophrenia"?

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    Ask HN: Who may benefit from this advanced text search functionality?

    I'm developing a text search solutions that allows users to perform complex queries on large collections of text. I'm not aware of any similar existing solution at the moment, so I…

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    Sure, the company is Babelscape ( http://babelscape.com ). For the translation tasks you can find massive parallel dataset with several language pairs at http://opus.nlpl.eu/ , the…

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    I work in NLP at a company that actually develops language agnostic solutions, but I'm not aware of any open-source tool that can do this. Nonetheless, if you can be more specific …