Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS

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Post by yoavz » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 3:49 PM UTC

Show HN: Shift-Ctrl-F: Search a webpage with natural language and TensorFlowJS
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Post by dvaun » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

This is definitely an interesting project. I'll give it a shot with Chrome the next time I'm scouring Reddit or HN for information when I'm doing research for a project

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Post by lbj » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

Wow. Now that’s an innovative and brilliant way to improve one our oldest tools. Certainly could by relevant in a general sense for much more than browsing

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Post by adrianmonk » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 4:59 PM UTC

Interesting idea for sure. I wasn't able to understand much from the demo image, though. The animation is fast, and all I can see about the result is that the word "lower" is highlighted/matched. I was hoping to get an idea of what results it finds and how relevant they are to the search.

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Post by throwaway744678 » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

adrianmonk wrote: post #4

Interesting idea for sure. I wasn't able to understand much from the demo image, though. The animation is fast, and all I can see about the result is that the word "lower" is highlighted/matched. I was hoping to get an idea of what results it finds and how relevant they are to the search.

They describe the sample search two paragraphs below.

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Post by kevincox » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

I think more natural language and context is the next huge step in search. The README has a good example where you find a section comparing two things. An example I run into often is trying to find emails or texts about an event. I know the date that the event occurred but I might have said "tomorrow", "tuesday", "the 25th", "2020-08-25" or "yesterday". These all refer to the same date can could be indexed, however Now I need to search for all of these with different date restrictions to find the hits and not show the misses.

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Post by xzyaoi » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

Awesome!

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Post by arey_abhishek » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 5:28 PM UTC

Great product! How is the data corpus being fed? Could this work as a chrome extension for any page?

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Post by de6u99er » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

Does the use TensoflowJS mean that search is being performed locally?

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Post by zitterbewegung » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 7:07 PM UTC

I tried using tfjs and Bert with 87 kilobytes of text do you have a similar issue ?