Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by youngprogrammer » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 11:02 AM UTC

Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning
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Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by charlieegan3 » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 12:11 PM UTC

I think you might get better results in the first stage using the dependency parse from CoreNLP - rather than the phrasal parse. Online demo at http://corenlp.run

If you're willing to drop CoreNLP there's also https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ that's worth checking out.

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by billconan » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 4:09 PM UTC

This Is cool! Is it easy to convert a mediawiki to the graph store your system reads?

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by Tpt » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 4:48 PM UTC

billconan wrote: post #3

This Is cool! Is it easy to convert a mediawiki to the graph store your system reads?

Wikidata (the wiki used) is not a regular MediaWiki but host special pages with structured data. See https://www.wikidata.org

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by atoko » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 5:07 PM UTC

This is cool! I like how you've iterated on a central concept (NLP) with different codebases.

Tip: The link to the source is pointing to github pages, which hasn't been set up.

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by youngprogrammer » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

atoko wrote: post #5

This is cool! I like how you've iterated on a central concept (NLP) with different codebases. Tip: The link to the source is pointing to github pages, which hasn't been set up.

Thanks! Fixed the link.

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by ecesena » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 5:34 PM UTC

Partially related - has anyone worked on natural language queries with time expressions in it? Imagine analytics queries, where you want to count the number of events/unique users, given certain conditions, and in a certain time window. i'm particularly interested in the time aspect of it.

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by fspeech » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 5:44 PM UTC

Have you studied Prolog? Its matching (logical unification) capability may give you some more ideas.

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by mrcabada » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 6:25 PM UTC

This is nice! Would it be possible to run the code with other language models? (Spanish, German, and any other CoreNLP language model)

Re: Show HN: A Natural Language Query Engine Without Machine Learning

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Post by youngprogrammer » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

mrcabada wrote: post #9

This is nice! Would it be possible to run the code with other language models? (Spanish, German, and any other CoreNLP language model)

Yes it should be possible! You would need to add the grammar matching rules for those languages though.