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Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

#32
This is impressive. It found everything I tried. If the author is reading, showing GIFs or a small video clip instead of a static image would be preferable.

My favorite Simpsons quote: https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=up+and+atom&e=S07E02&t=673....

Coach: Up and atom!

Rainier Wolfcastle: Up and at them.

Coach: Up and atom!

Rainier: Up and at them!

Coach: [annoyed] Up and atom!

Rainier: [louder] Up and at them!

Coach: Better.

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

#33

One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...

Was this done using the DVDs? I'm curious about any potential licensing issues with the screen caps and subtitles. Did you have to get permission/sign something - or does this fall under fair use?

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

#35

One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...

Where did the subtitle data come from? It's got a mispelling of Horatio McCallister in it:

https://frinkiac.com/?p=search&q=captain+mcallister https://www.google.com/search?q=horatio+mccallister

Also when are you going to get seasons 16+? I really need to be able to find Jeff Albertson! (Comic book guy)

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

#38
post #33

One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...

Was this done using the DVDs? I'm curious about any potential licensing issues with the screen caps and subtitles. Did you have to get permission/sign something - or does this fall under fair use?

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E11/1070785.jpg?lines=+Yes%2C+y....

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

#39
post #23
post #19

No Milpool! :( More seriously: 1) Awesome!!! 2) It would be great if the search results page listed the quotes in addition to showing the images.

It totally does have milpool: https://frinkiac.com/?p=meme&q=i+think+i+left+my+glasses+in+... It's just that nobody ever says "Milpool" in the dialogue.

Excellent!

Re: Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

#40

One of the authors here. I blogged a bit the other day about how we built this: https://langui.sh/2016/02/02/frinkiac-the-simpsons-screensho...

Cool.

"We also parse subtitle files and correlate each subtitle line's timecode with the timecode of the screenshot. Finally, the frinkiac binary can upload the data set to frinkiac-server. "

Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files. I've seen the "open source" star wars gifs file with the dialog and time codes[1], but I'm not sure how they pulled the text from the close-captioning? (edit: someone else something similar...sorry).

Also aside from the two character index search index you describe how are you searching the quotes with postgres? Are you using postgres's full text search[2] or something else?

Thanks, I love the simpsons and this is really cromulent[3] and cool.

[1]https://github.com/LindseyB/starwars-dot-gif/blob/master/sub... [2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/textsearch.htm... [3]https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=cromulent&e=S07E16&t=10420....

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