Never found it, but if you build it count me in as a user. Same issue, same solution.
Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
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Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#12Try http://www.netspeak.org/?locale=en it seems to do some of the things you asked. It is implemented on top of n-gram corpora.
It looks helpful, but I would like to paste a whole document and be told which fragments look suspicious because of low popularity. The site requires putting wildcards and completes only a single n-gram.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#13I wonder if there is a tool like this: 1. You enter a sentence 2. It gives out 5 different ways to say the exact same thing. Such a tool not only would help ESL people but also it would help native speakers find more relaxed or formal versions of a sentence.
We're building a tool that does something similar but for email. Currently we're targeting cold sales emails- the idea is, you enter a recipient's email and we aggregate data about them and surface relevant, personable sentences that you can use in the email. You'll also be able to change the tone of these sentences (funny, professional, casual, etc.) Learn more: http://emailfox.co
That's ... disgustingly creepy on first glance.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#14Check out http://foxtype.com - does some of that but more grammar-like heuristics such as conciseness, complexity.
On a side note, I'm part of a team working on http://emailfox.co which will provide 'Smart Sentences' for you when composing an email, based on a recipient. Allowing you to write personal, relevant emails faster.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#15To improve the qualitative aspects of writing, in this case for job listings primarily, check out https://textio.com/. There's no API, but I think it will help you think about what "popular" language means.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#16Check out http://foxtype.com - does some of that but more grammar-like heuristics such as conciseness, complexity. On a side note, I'm part of a team working on http://emailfox.co which will provide 'Smart Sentences' for you when composing an email, based on a recipient. Allowing you to write personal, relevant emails faster.
I like the idea of composing sentences from some high-level pre-checked blocks (the new Google's Assistant seems to do this also). But this doesn't fit my use cases because when I pasted a sentence with a grammar error, it didn't tell me there's an error.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#17From XKCD themselves, an editor that only allows for common words: https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#18Check out http://foxtype.com - does some of that but more grammar-like heuristics such as conciseness, complexity. On a side note, I'm part of a team working on http://emailfox.co which will provide 'Smart Sentences' for you when composing an email, based on a recipient. Allowing you to write personal, relevant emails faster.
People on mobile: looks like foxtype already is a product, it's a chrome extension.[0]
On mobile it just asks your email so they tell you when they launch (on mobile?). Horrible to have landing pages like that. Absolutely useless product page on mobile.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/foxtype/npcfiblhbj...
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#19Try http://www.netspeak.org/?locale=en it seems to do some of the things you asked. It is implemented on top of n-gram corpora.
It looks helpful, but I would like to paste a whole document and be told which fragments look suspicious because of low popularity. The site requires putting wildcards and completes only a single n-gram.
I did not get that from your question.
This takes parts of a sentence (i think at most 5-grams) and a few operators e.g.:
If you ask for similar words to 'much' in a fragment.
'and knows ... #much ...'
=>
and knows a lot, 3.500, 65,2%
and knows a lot about, 2.100, 39,5%
and knows a great deal, 690, 12,6%
and knows much, 630, 11,5%
and knows lots, 380, 7,1%
and knows lots of, 300, 5,5%
and knows a good deal, 100, 1,9%
and knows practically, 53, 1,0%
and knows very much, 45, 0,8%Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#20Thanks for the mention above (foxtype.com).
We're currently building an online editor checks