Aylien Text API
AI
nlp text analysis api
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
7 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 15 critical, out of 37 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Performance: 1 for, 8 againstExecution: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 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
Easy-to-use demo and useful platform for developers
From 3 comments
Cool stuff! It's nice to see platforms like this which abstract out good algorithms, so that developers can worry about thinking of interesting applications. .Open source libs…
gklitt on HNSuper nice ! This is a very interesting area... Good to see something new apart from Alchemy and opencalais !
skiplecariboo on HNThis is incredible!
jackson1988 on HN
Objections
Site slow or crashing under HN traffic
From 3 comments
Unfortunately the web site is still analyzing the example Techcrunch link (it's been 3 min already). Is something broken? Maybe you could cache some recurring analyses.
kenshiro_o on HNHN - the ultimate DDOS machine
lukasm on HNPlaying around with it and seemed to have killed it by pasting the text from this WP article (http://pastebin.com/AtCU7E8H) in and hitting analyze. It's been spinning for a…
bane on HN
Poor accuracy on some texts, e.g. sentiment and classification errors
From 3 comments
"There was a time when men could roam free on earth, free from concrete and tarmac. Now it's all gone to shit." Classification: arts, culture and entertainment - architecture…
cliveowen on HNClearly broken. Say's news.ycombinator.com sentiment is "Positive". All jokes aside, really cool; love the accessibility of the demo.
elwell on HNI posted a couple of paragraphs from a financial blog and the tool interpreted SEC to mean Southeastern Conference.
cglace on HN
Failed to extract article body from some pages
From 1 comment
Cool stuff! It's nice to see platforms like this which abstract out good algorithms, so that developers can worry about thinking of interesting applications. .Open source libs…
gklitt on HN
Requests
Support for more human languages
From 2 comments
I'd be interested to know which human languages you support
geoffroy on HNThanks ! Hope French is on this roadmap !
geoffroy on HN
Headline or top-level page summarization
From 1 comment
OK. Summarizing a top level content (parse headlines and generate nugget summary) would be a very useful feature, if you can do it.
mrg3_2013 on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Alchemy and Open Calais
From 3 comments
How is this superior to Alchemy? http://www.alchemyapi.com/
adventured on HNThere's more and more of text analysis APIs, would you mind comparing your feature set to something like Textrazor (http://www.textrazor.com) or Open Calais? What is special…
polskibus on HNI would also like a comparison. I used Open Calais two years ago for a project, and would definitely use it again if needed. Edit: A quick glance at the API also shows that there…
bduerst on HN
Accuracy figures and training data domains
From 1 comment
Do you publish accuracy figures? Any information about what domains your training data is from?
syllogism on HN
Alternatives named
AlchemyAPI
From 2 comments
Cool stuff! It's nice to see platforms like this which abstract out good algorithms, so that developers can worry about thinking of interesting applications. .Open source libs…
gklitt on HNHow is this superior to Alchemy? http://www.alchemyapi.com/
adventured on HN
Open Calais
From 1 comment
There's more and more of text analysis APIs, would you mind comparing your feature set to something like Textrazor (http://www.textrazor.com) or Open Calais? What is special…
polskibus on HN
TextRazor
From 1 comment
There's more and more of text analysis APIs, would you mind comparing your feature set to something like Textrazor (http://www.textrazor.com) or Open Calais? What is special…
polskibus on HN
TheySay
From 1 comment
Another player in this space, from Oxford, UK: http://apidemo.theysay.io/
analytically on HN