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Languages and libraries
text analysis library
SHOW HN2019
110points
12comments
#436of 2,195 in 2019
Top 20%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 3 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful and cool idea
From 4 comments
This is really cool! Thanks.
nickbail3y on HNVery cool. Wonder if this could be tailored to analyze financial disclosures (10-Ks and 10-Qs) to rank management teams on their abilities to describe their company succinctly…
airstrike on HNReally cool. It would be super useful to have this in other languages as well, french in my case. This would be a useful addition to a grammar checker I am currently developing.
maximedb on HNman what a useful thing that never occurred to me could exist. I'm gonna run all of my technical writing through this
mlevental on HN
Requests
Support for other languages such as French
From 2 comments
Really cool. It would be super useful to have this in other languages as well, french in my case. This would be a useful addition to a grammar checker I am currently developing.
maximedb on HNThanks. I am sure it will be useful to have it in other languages. Will see what I can do :)
simplegeek on HN
Tailor analysis to financial disclosures like 10-Ks
From 1 comment
Very cool. Wonder if this could be tailored to analyze financial disclosures (10-Ks and 10-Qs) to rank management teams on their abilities to describe their company succinctly…
airstrike on HN
Questions
How does The Sense of Style compare to The Elements of Style
From 1 comment
Do you know how "The Sense of Style" compares to "The Elements of Style" ?
Scarbutt on HN
Alternatives named
ProseLint
From 2 comments
https://github.com/amperser/proselint is also very nice.
hprotagonist on HNProselint looks really excellent. I'm a fan of Garner's usage dictionary. Unfortunately, out of a sample of my longer comments here, all it really ever picks up are overuse of…
tptacek on HN
textlint and retext
From 1 comment
I haven't tried any of them, but I've been collecting such things in case I find the time/energy to chase down one specific yak. https://github.com/retextjs/awesome-retext…
abathur on HN