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Fuzzy and semantic search for captioned YouTube videos

53 points by Aditya_Ramesh 7y ago

codetrotter 7y ago
This is nice work. Would you consider adding an open source license to the root of the repository, so that you release the code under the terms of said license? If so then I suggest using the ISC license. It is short, simple and very permissive.
- Aditya_Ramesh 7y ago
  That sounds good to me - I'll do that as soon as possible. And thanks for the nice words!
solarkraft 7y ago
What, a good search feature for YouTube? Amazing! Long term I'd like to have an independent YouTube index which this could be a part of, because in general YouTube's search features are absolute garbage (again amazing for a search company). Are there alternative front-ends that accomplish this?
priansh 7y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a while! It's awesome to be able to search videos like this. Any hope for a Chrome extension?
est31 7y ago
Very cool! I wonder why Google, a search company, is not offering this feature themselves. At least it got much nicer to search now with them offering transcripts of every video (you can simply ctrl+f with the transcript open) but it's still not as nice as it could be.
- ryacko 7y ago
  Corporations don’t like advertising imperfection, partially because many people have the wrong expectations (except for the cases where you have already purchased the product).
- jakeogh 7y ago
  They want you to find what they want you to find. Not what you want to find.
BiasRegularizer 7y ago
Nice job OP. I noticed that you used word2vec for the embedding space, do you think more modern ones like seq2seq or BERT might give better performance?
- Aditya_Ramesh 7y ago
  Yeah, I'm currently looking into them - I'm new to the field and exploring existing solutions to see what works best and what's also computationally feasible since the end user would mostly have limited access to powerful hardware.
therein 7y ago
This is great. I wish YouTube indexed this officially. Also another search problem I have is with GitHub. It is terrible, at the very least it needs to expose a flag to do fork deduplication.

53 points by Aditya_Ramesh 7y ago

This is nice work. Would you consider adding an open source license to the root of the repository, so that you release the code under the terms of said license? If so then I suggest using the ISC license. It is short, simple and very permissive.

Aditya_Ramesh 7y ago
That sounds good to me - I'll do that as soon as possible. And thanks for the nice words!

solarkraft 7y ago

What, a good search feature for YouTube? Amazing! Long term I'd like to have an independent YouTube index which this could be a part of, because in general YouTube's search features are absolute garbage (again amazing for a search company). Are there alternative front-ends that accomplish this?

priansh 7y ago

I've been looking for something like this for a while! It's awesome to be able to search videos like this. Any hope for a Chrome extension?

est31 7y ago

Very cool! I wonder why Google, a search company, is not offering this feature themselves. At least it got much nicer to search now with them offering transcripts of every video (you can simply ctrl+f with the transcript open) but it's still not as nice as it could be.

ryacko 7y ago
Corporations don’t like advertising imperfection, partially because many people have the wrong expectations (except for the cases where you have already purchased the product).
jakeogh 7y ago
They want you to find what they want you to find. Not what you want to find.

BiasRegularizer 7y ago

Nice job OP. I noticed that you used word2vec for the embedding space, do you think more modern ones like seq2seq or BERT might give better performance?

Aditya_Ramesh 7y ago
Yeah, I'm currently looking into them - I'm new to the field and exploring existing solutions to see what works best and what's also computationally feasible since the end user would mostly have limited access to powerful hardware.

therein 7y ago

This is great. I wish YouTube indexed this officially. Also another search problem I have is with GitHub. It is terrible, at the very least it needs to expose a flag to do fork deduplication.