doc-edit
Productivity
writing assistant
SHOW HN2012
81points
50comments
#292of 1,677 in 2012
Top 18%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 10 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 7 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 6 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Original idea that is useful for writers and educators
From 4 comments
Great job! I encourage you to continue improving it. I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png…
sillysaurus on HNTyping "Bayesian classification of" somehow causes the relevant content "Naive Bayes classifier" to be added repeatedly in a loop.
infinitebayes on HNParticularly for educational environments. Annotation of texts to explain cultural references, idiomatic usages, etc., is extremely useful in foreign language instruction, and…
gliese1337 on HNThis is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too. One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type. Second being able to…
blrgeek on HN
Good demo and well presented
From 2 comments
Great job! I encourage you to continue improving it. I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png…
sillysaurus on HNThis is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too. One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type. Second being able to…
blrgeek on HN
Objections
Picks up too many irrelevant or stop words
From 3 comments
Interesting idea. It could be improved by filtering out stop words; right now it recommends Oregon and Belgium for "or" and "be."
Rangi42 on HNThis is really cool and I can definitely see it being useful once the kinks are worked out. Without repeating most of the feedback given already, I’ve noticed that it picks up…
fabm on HNGreat job! I encourage you to continue improving it. I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png…
sillysaurus on HN
Sidebar is a distraction while writing
From 1 comment
FYI: relevant, not relevent. It's a cool idea, but presented in a sidebar like that i think it's mostly a distraction. when you're writing you want less outside information, not…
notatoad on HN
Many bugs, including looping and flashing
From 4 comments
Typing "Bayesian classification of" somehow causes the relevant content "Naive Bayes classifier" to be added repeatedly in a loop.
infinitebayes on HNWhen you write "times" in documents, it starts to flash (I mean time entry goes and comes back continuosly)
reader_1000 on HNI wrote a text with "German constitution" and now it's stuck in a loop fetching the information to "Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany". http://i.imgur.com/0QaY2.png
CapnGoat on HNI was just testing it using other top news on HN, like this one: Roy Bates's death. It seems there is a bug when I enter this line: ``` "Roy Bates died on" ``` Paddy Roy Bates's…
gprasanth on HN
Requests
Let users hide the sidebar or show info on hover
From 2 comments
Fixed, thanks. I guess there would need to be the ability to hide the sidebar in a more usable version. Thanks for that tip! EDIT: grammar
sonier on HNWhat if instead of a sidebar, you could get information about a word by putting your mouse over it and doing something? (does javascript let you trap rightclicks?)
whatshisface on HN
Choose information sources such as Wikipedia or Wolfram Alpha
From 1 comment
I would like to see the ability to drag and drop the text directly into the editor... and an ability to choose the sources for obtaining information (Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia…
timkly on HN
Put latest topic near the typing area
From 1 comment
This is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too. One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type. Second being able to…
blrgeek on HN
Questions
How does the NLP work
From 1 comment
how does the NLP work for this?
bakztfuture on HN
Is the source code available
From 1 comment
Is it just me, or are we missing the source code? Would be nice to have a peek. Edit: Sorry, didn't see that is was just JS! EditEdit: But where is the source to /keywords
jcla1 on HN
Alternatives named
Zemanta
From 1 comment
fyi, zemanta (zemanta.com) has been working on a similiar product (targeting bloggers) for years. Take a look at it.
jakobmarovt on HN
Google Docs research sidebar
From 2 comments
google docs also has an integrated information sidebar this days
riffraff on HNThe real time information is neat! FYI, This feature is available (in non-real time manner) in Google Docs and Microsoft Word, which are powered by Google Search and Bing…
samirahmed on HN
Microsoft Word research features
From 1 comment
The real time information is neat! FYI, This feature is available (in non-real time manner) in Google Docs and Microsoft Word, which are powered by Google Search and Bing…
samirahmed on HN
Apache Stanbol
From 1 comment
if you want to do this sort of entity recognition, there is Apache Stanbol which is quite useful: http://stanbol.apache.org/
bergie on HN