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QuillBot: Free Paraphrasing Tool

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Re: QuillBot: Free Paraphrasing Tool

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Post by duchenne »

saternius wrote: post #19
duchenne wrote: post #18

Since I am not a native English speaker, I use quillbot to make my sentences sound more natural. Especially when I write an email or for the texts on my web apps. Also, I met the founders before our yc interviews. They are very cool guys, with an impressive tech.

Totally remembered our couch conversation. Appreciate the kind words and support. Hope your startup is doing well and I'm glad you found our website helpful!

Also, I've met quite many office workers in France and Korea that would be very interested in your service. They regularly have to make powerpoint slides in English. This kind of presentations can have a big impact on their careers, but they struggle because of the language. They sometimes call proof-reading services. They are high-quality but not flexible. You have to send them the finished document and cannot make last minute modifications. Maybe, the companies could even pay to make it accessible for their employees (or embedded in an powerpoint). Foreign branches of international corporations could be a good target because the communication between local workers and the HQ is always problematic.

Re: QuillBot: Free Paraphrasing Tool

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Post by lumost »

saternius wrote: post #3
gibolt wrote: post #2

Seems to do a consistent job making comparable sentences. Curious what tech is underneath the UI.

It uses a deep sequence to sequence model, and the drop-down thesaurus are phrase embeddings trained on large corpuses like Reddit and Wikipedia.

What did you use for the parallel data? the paraphrases are much better than an auto-encoder.
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