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Show HN: Pisa – Performant Indexes and Search for Academia
- citilife 7y agoIt would really help if there was an example in the README
- psychometry 7y agoYeah I'm pretty confused as to the use case. How does it allow researchers to "experiment with state-of-the-art techniques" or enable "rapid development"?
- amallia 7y agoThanks for the feedback!
- pergadad 7y agoWhy do people choose such names for their product? It's s city and its one of the most widely reported works in education (programme for international student assessment) with millions of news articles. How do you want to be findable with a name like this?
- ithkuil 7y agoWhile poor search recall is a bit ironic for the name of a search engine, I guess it's because Antonio has studied at the University of Pisa and later worked as researcher for the CNR institute for research, again in Pisa. (Me too, hi!).
- amallia 7y agoGood to see you Marko!
- amallia 7y agoWe rely on different user intents. Search for "PISA engine" or "PISA search" and you will find this tool and not the city. Being found by the keyword `PISA` on Google is not necessarily our main goal. We are not selling anything, the community is just building a product for IR research. We are willing to gain interest from skilled people in the end. I don't think it really matters if there are `news` about the city, we are not targeting the news anyway. Also, think about `Windows` or `Go`, there is no way you get confused once these words are in the right context.
- ReD_CoDE 7y agoDoes it have the ability to convert PDFs to searchable databases? I mean you have millions of PDF articles, so can you search them from a search engine to find appropriate materials?
- amallia 7y agoYes, you can index any content as long as it is parsable. You can easily plug a new PDF parser and start indexing your PDF articles...