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Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by vise890 » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 9:27 PM UTC

Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos
cloujera.clojurecup.com

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by aurora72 » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 10:03 PM UTC

It can't find any course related to 'Scala' whereas I can find courses on the Coursera's website. FYI.

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by vise890 » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 10:44 PM UTC

aurora72 wrote: post #2

It can't find any course related to 'Scala' whereas I can find courses on the Coursera's website. FYI.

Since this was for clojurecup, we have decided to remove all references to Scala. :P

On a more serious note, we've only indexed ~25 courses and probably the ones you refer to weren't among them; if you have a particular course in mind, tell me, I'll fire up the scraper..

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by mrcactu5 » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 11:03 PM UTC

spoken words...? so we are searching the audio of the lectures?

how were you able to access the coursera videos without registering?

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by codexon » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 11:14 PM UTC

mrcactu5 wrote: post #4

spoken words...? so we are searching the audio of the lectures? how were you able to access the coursera videos without registering?

Registering is free and transcripts are provided for each lecture.

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by vise890 » Sun, Oct 19, 2014, 11:36 PM UTC

mrcactu5 wrote: post #4

spoken words...? so we are searching the audio of the lectures? how were you able to access the coursera videos without registering?

Yup, what codexon said.

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 3:11 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by uberwach » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 9:49 AM UTC

vise890 wrote: post #3

aurora72 wrote: post #2

It can't find any course related to 'Scala' whereas I can find courses on the Coursera's website. FYI.

Since this was for clojurecup, we have decided to remove all references to Scala. :P On a more serious note, we've only indexed ~25 courses and probably the ones you refer to weren't among them; if you have a particular course in mind, tell me, I'll fire up the scraper..

Functional Programming Principles in Scala and Principles of Reactive Programming are hits I would expect.

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by vise890 » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 12:48 PM UTC

uberwach wrote: post #8

vise890 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since this was for clojurecup, we have decided to remove all references to Scala. :P On a more serious note, we've only indexed ~25 courses and probably the ones you refer to weren't among them; if you have a particular course in mind, tell me, I'll fire up the scraper..

Functional Programming Principles in Scala and Principles of Reactive Programming are hits I would expect.

Cool, I'll add them tonight.

Re: Show HN: Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos

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Post by e12e » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 4:24 PM UTC

Was hoping this would link to the point in time in the video, but apparently it just matches hits in transcripts with link to the (entire) video? If there are no timing information in the transcripts, I guess that's understandable... but it is a little underwhelming (we've been doing searching of plain text for a while...).