TextRazor
AI
text mining api
SHOW HN2013
118points
44comments
#185of 1,739 in 2013
Top 11%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 5 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 8 for, 1 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Entity and topic recognition results are impressive
From 3 comments
Really impressive results. I put in some music reviews, and it did an excellent job of identifying artists, Genres, labels, etc. From an API perspective,there's not much out…
abaer on HNThis is very impressive stuff. I ran a news article through the demo, and the entity recognition was very impressive. Waiting for them to reveal more details on pricing.
movingahead on HNThis is the best Wikipedia-backed namex I've seen and I've seen a lot of them, worked on code for one, and even designed one. Awesome!
PaulHoule on HN
Customizable, scriptable results are a killer feature
From 1 comment
This looks great. I'm building http://dokket.aws.af.cm. It's a database filled with documents from the Federal Communications Commission. From day 1, I've been looking for smart…
adelevie on HN
Objections
No pricing published
From 4 comments
Cool demo, but how do you guys compare to, say, Alchemy API ? Also, no pricing => not cool.
steeve on HNNo pricing at all on the website is fishy for anyone who wants to use the free plan?
thejosh on HNI don't know if your just being slammed right now but I posted a request for pricing and haven't got anything.. it looks like a nice API to integrate into our system but it…
thehodge on HNWow, nice demo. I agree with the others the lack of pricing is a bit disconcerting. Btw, anyone else read the title as "Trent Reznor"? I need a coffee...
beebs93 on HN
Inconsistent results on some articles
From 1 comment
I am also building an application that could use this service. So I tested TextRazor and the results were not good on two random articles I processed with the service. I really…
richardofyork on HN
Requests
Publish clear pricing
From 2 comments
I don't know if your just being slammed right now but I posted a request for pricing and haven't got anything.. it looks like a nice API to integrate into our system but it…
thehodge on HNCool demo, but how do you guys compare to, say, Alchemy API ? Also, no pricing => not cool.
steeve on HN
Offline or packaged library option
From 1 comment
Wow, this seems incredible, signed up immediately. My mind is already spinning with all of the cool apps I could make with this. How hard would it be to allow this functionality…
habosa on HN
Listing on Mashape
From 1 comment
Hi, would love to have this API listed on Mashape
sinzone on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Alchemy API and OpenCalais
From 3 comments
Cool demo, but how do you guys compare to, say, Alchemy API ? Also, no pricing => not cool.
steeve on HNHow does your offering compare to Calais from Thomson-Reuters? Edit: To be specific, it looks very similar. What do you have that Calais doesn't?
JPKab on HNThere are a number of other competing APIs. One of the best is OpenCalais, which is owned by Thomson Reuters[1]. You can demo it with some text here:…
typpo on HN
Sentiment analysis support
From 1 comment
Great work! But I missed the "sentiment analysis" flavour that used to be so popular some years ago with the NLP bunch... In this sense, I did something similar:…
atrilla on HN
Alternatives named
OpenCalais
From 3 comments
How does your offering compare to Calais from Thomson-Reuters? Edit: To be specific, it looks very similar. What do you have that Calais doesn't?
JPKab on HNThere are a number of other competing APIs. One of the best is OpenCalais, which is owned by Thomson Reuters[1]. You can demo it with some text here:…
typpo on HNI have been using the free tier (50K API calls per day) of Open Calais for years and have also used it in code examples in three books I have written. One thing that Open Calais…
mark_l_watson on HN
Stanford parser and NLP tools
From 2 comments
This is just like stanford parser. http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/ Why use TextRazor and pay for it ?
anilshanbhag on HNThe Stanford NLP tools are very good, and also GPLed, which works for a lot of projects. If the GPL doesn't work for you, the Apache OpenNLP project is also good.
mark_l_watson on HN
Alchemy API
From 1 comment
Cool demo, but how do you guys compare to, say, Alchemy API ? Also, no pricing => not cool.
steeve on HN
Apache OpenNLP
From 1 comment
The Stanford NLP tools are very good, and also GPLed, which works for a lot of projects. If the GPL doesn't work for you, the Apache OpenNLP project is also good.
mark_l_watson on HN