Matthew Kirk spoke about a neural network language predictor at RubyConf a few weeks ago. Here are his slides and code: http://modulus7.com/rubyconf/
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Often overlooked by people who only know what I call "drive-by machine learning" (finished an online ML course or something). A bit sour, are we? ;) The point is that it is an NLP task where it is relatively easy to get good results on general text (see Cavnar and Trenkle). So, it is a fun and satisfying exercise. Saying there is difficult noisy data is pointing out the obvious ;).
If it's obvious to you, then you're not the target audience of my disclaimer :) But HN responses to posts like these overwhelmingly suggest it's far from obvious. So, it is a fun and satisfying exercise. I agree. Perhaps you can help evangelize the world of difference between "fun exercise" and a production-ready system (the OP is a paid service).
I agree. Perhaps you can help evangelize the world of difference between "fun exercise" and a production-ready system (the OP is a paid service).
I used to be a bit upset when someone claims to have implemented a state-of-the-art POS tagger, when they just took the dictionary and rules produced by Eric Brill's learner verbatim and apply those. Or worse, they take the first ten rules ;).
Nowadays I just prefer to evolution let do its work. The best or the one with the best marketing wins :).
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#43I've used detectlanguage.com[1] in the past, which seems like a very similar service to getlang.io. With both of them it is hard to know what is behind the scenes...
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's obvious to you, then you're not the target audience of my disclaimer :) But HN responses to posts like these overwhelmingly suggest it's far from obvious. So, it is a fun and satisfying exercise. I agree. Perhaps you can help evangelize the world of difference between "fun exercise" and a production-ready system (the OP is a paid service).
I agree. Perhaps you can help evangelize the world of difference between "fun exercise" and a production-ready system (the OP is a paid service). I used to be a bit upset when someone claims to have implemented a state-of-the-art POS tagger, when they just took the dictionary and rules produced by Eric Brill's learner verbatim and apply those. Or worse, they take the first ten rules ;). Nowadays I just prefer to evol…
Liberating approach Daniel!
I'm still in the naive do-it-well phase, but seeing the downvotes, it may be time to join the hipsters. Or at least shut up ;)
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#46Where's the login page? I need to get my token