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Show HN: We've developed a Natural Language API
- SticksandFlicks 14y agoNLP requires a lot of computation, how fast does your API run?
- apetresc 14y agoIt depends on the category, etc., but our own tests indicate about 100ms latency.
- tych0 14y agoWow, this is pretty cool! Could you give a few more examples to get a feel for what kind of results you get (and inputs you can give)?
- apetresc 14y agoTake a look at our ruby specs: https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-ruby/blob/master/maluuba_napi/spec/maluuba-napi/interpret_spec.rb https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-ruby/blob/master/maluuba_nap... There's nearly a hundred sample sentences and expected outputs -- and they all pass :)
- drewch 14y agoIf you prefer other languages, we also got: Python: https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-python/blob/master/tests/test_client.py https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-python/blob/master/tests/tes... Java: https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-java/blob/master/src/test/java/com/maluuba/napi/client/MaluubaNAPIClientTest.java https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-java/blob/master/src/test/ja... Here is an example of a sentence and response: >> client.interpret phrase: 'Set up a meeting with Bob tomorrow night at 7 PM to discuss the TPS reports' response: {:entities=> { :daterange=> [{ :start=>"2012-11-15", :end=>"2012-11-16" }], :title=> ["meeting to discuss the tps reports"], :timerange=> [{ :start=>"12:00:00AM", :end=>"12:00:00AM" }], :contacts=>[{ :name=>"bob" }] }, :action=>:CALENDAR_CREATE_EVENT, :category=>:CALENDAR }
- tych0 14y agoCool, thank you very much!
- zalew 14y agowhat are the limits? and I can't see any information about pricing.
- drewch 14y agoIt's 1000 api calls a day, right now we are in an early phrase and it is free. If you require more calls we can accomodate more calls based on your needs, and it would still be at no cost.
- zapt02 14y agoExample URLs complain about OAuth errors. Don't provide an example if it doesn't work properly.
- apetresc 14y agoThey do work, they just need to be authenticated with the apikey parameter -- given the experimental stage it's in, we didn't really want to publish a publicly-available key =/ Sorry for the inconvenience!
- ithcy2 14y agoVery cool, but I find it strange that all of the example phrases on the demo page are much longer than recommended by the API docs (<10 words). Why is this?
- drewch 14y ago9 or 10 words is about the average sentence that we receive, it is just a guideline so that users understand that we aren't going to handle multiple sentences or paragraphs.
- apetresc 14y agoRight; the more important thing is that they all have a single intent.
- ithcy2 14y agoI see. Thanks for your responses. What happens when you encounter phrases with multiple intents? Is it something you can detect but is difficult to deal with, or is it a best-guess kind of thing where you attempt to obey the "first intent"? Or something else?
- webbruce 14y agoDude this is amazing, I want to try it for printavo
- pdat 14y agoYou've been approved. enjoy!
- pknight 14y agoWould be great if this were a library that can be integrated rather than an api. An api makes things problematic because it provides the kind of functionality that would break an app if it for some reason isn't working. I don't see how it can be viable service for anything other than non-commercial/non-critical projects. Also...no php?