Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
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Re: Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
#2It would really help if there was an example in the README
Re: Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
#3It would really help if there was an example in the README
Yeah I'm pretty confused as to the use case. How does it allow researchers to "experiment with state-of-the-art techniques" or enable "rapid development"?
Re: Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
#4Why do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
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#5Why do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
While poor search recall is a bit ironic for the name of a search engine, I guess it's because Antonio has studied at the University of Pisa and later worked as researcher for the CNR institute for research, again in Pisa. (Me too, hi!).
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#6Why do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
While poor search recall is a bit ironic for the name of a search engine, I guess it's because Antonio has studied at the University of Pisa and later worked as researcher for the CNR institute for research, again in Pisa. (Me too, hi!).
Good to see you Marko!
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#8Does it have the ability to convert PDFs to searchable databases?
I mean you have millions of PDF articles, so can you search them from a search engine to find appropriate materials?
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#9Why do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
We rely on different user intents. Search for "PISA engine" or "PISA search" and you will find this tool and not the city. Being found by the keyword `PISA` on Google is not necessarily our main goal.
We are not selling anything, the community is just building a product for IR research. We are willing to gain interest from skilled people in the end.
I don't think it really matters if there are `news` about the city, we are not targeting the news anyway.
Also, think about `Windows` or `Go`, there is no way you get confused once these words are in the right context.
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#10Does it have the ability to convert PDFs to searchable databases? I mean you have millions of PDF articles, so can you search them from a search engine to find appropriate materials?
Yes, you can index any content as long as it is parsable.
You can easily plug a new PDF parser and start indexing your PDF articles...