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Re: Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

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Very cool. This is essentially what I envisioned when I started work on http://www.textalyze.com . Haven't devoted much time to it over the last couple months, but this provides a lot of inspiration.

Hi man, I tried my website (http://www.ngajakjalan.com) but the analyzer probably reads my inlined JS and doesn't read the "done" version (I use AngularJS). Maybe you can use something like PhantomJS to extract websites content "as seen by human"?

Re: Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

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Great work! But I missed the "sentiment analysis" flavour that used to be so popular some years ago with the NLP bunch... In this sense, I did something similar:

http://dtminredis.housing.salle.url.edu:8080/EmoLib/

and

http://nlptools.atrilla.net/web/omsa.php

Drop me a line if I can be of any help!

Re: Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

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This looks great. I'm building http://dokket.aws.af.cm . It's a database filled with documents from the Federal Communications Commission. From day 1, I've been looking for smart ways to make use of the thousands of documents of unstructured text. The customization you offer seems to be the killer feature for me. I'll write a Ruby api wrapper if you give me an agreed-upon amount of usage when you settle on pricing. F…

I am also building an application that could use this service. So I tested TextRazor and the results were not good on two random articles I processed with the service. I really want this to work out, because my application needs this kind of technology to be reliable and accurate. I just processed the article at the link below, and the word "Tesla" was not captured as one of the topics. http://www.teslamotors.com/blo…

It works for me.

Re: Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am also building an application that could use this service. So I tested TextRazor and the results were not good on two random articles I processed with the service. I really want this to work out, because my application needs this kind of technology to be reliable and accurate. I just processed the article at the link below, and the word "Tesla" was not captured as one of the topics. http://www.teslamotors.com/blo…

It works for me.

I just tried it again and it worked this time. That is interesting: I don't know if they tweaked it a bit or not :), but I am feeling a bit better now, because my application really needs a reliable, accurate service like this.

Re: Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

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Question: What are people actually doing with technology like this right now? (i.e. who are the people who see this and think.. yay, I'll sign up now!)

Extracting important keywords from thousands of pages for example. On our website we let user enter quite a lot of content, and being able to extract keywords and find patterns between user could be key in naming categories and such.

Re: Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It works for me.

I just tried it again and it worked this time. That is interesting: I don't know if they tweaked it a bit or not :), but I am feeling a bit better now, because my application really needs a reliable, accurate service like this.

No tweaking, promise :) It's possible you hit an inconsistent server first time around, I'll have a dig on our end. Let me know if you have any other problems - toby@textrazor.com.
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