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> how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com http://www.maluuba.com Wit is 100% open and flexible, you can create any intent you need for your app, you're not

by ar7hur 13y ago

> how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com http://www.maluuba.com Wit is 100% open and flexible, you can create any intent you need for your app, you're not limited to a static set of domains/actions. EDIT: @ragebol we are very interested in ROS and robotics, don't hesitate to get in touch with me arthur at wit dot ai. In the future we would like to provide an off-the-shelf human/robot communication module for developers.

ragebol 13y ago
Awesome! I made a wrapper around Maluuba for ROS before (https://github.com/yol/maluuba_ros https://github.com/yol/maluuba_ros) and maybe I get to a Wit-wrapper for ROS as well. With Maluuba, we can't make a command like "Introduce yourself" or "Grab that can for me" because of the limited set of categories. Wit should be able to handle those as well, from the looks of it.
- drewch 13y ago
  We (Maluuba) are actually working on improving nAPI and now have the ability to define your own domains and actions. It's not public yet, but we're planning on releasing it mid November.
  - ragebol 13y ago
    Nice! I'll check back on Maluuba in November.
ragebol 13y ago
For the robot I'm working on, we're using http://wiki.ros.org/wire http://wiki.ros.org/wire to make probabilistic world models. When the API would not only return a confidence score for one possible interpretation, it would be interesting to get multiple interpretations with varying confidence scores, so you can somehow determine one that makes the most sense given your world model.
skram 13y ago
How "open" is Wit? Open source or open APIs allowing users to modify your algorithms/training data? I assume there would be a significant cost to being able to run our own instance of Wit on-premise, right? I applied for alpha access using the github username "marks"
- ar7hur 13y ago
  > How "open" is Wit? Openness is one of our core values. We're inspired by companies like GitHub. - Regarding data, we encourage users to share their data, making “public” Wit instances free of charge (à la GitHub). We’re also working on standard formats for NLP/ML data (models, sets, etc). - Regarding open-source, we plan to release our algorithms and infrastructure piecemeal (à la Prismatic). We’ll announce our open source plans in the near future.
ragebol 13y ago
I made a simple wrapper at https://github.com/yol/wit_ros https://github.com/yol/wit_ros Are there any test cases I can use, which utilize the full power of the API?

by ar7hur 13y ago

ragebol 13y ago

Awesome! I made a wrapper around Maluuba for ROS before (https://github.com/yol/maluuba_ros https://github.com/yol/maluuba_ros) and maybe I get to a Wit-wrapper for ROS as well. With Maluuba, we can't make a command like "Introduce yourself" or "Grab that can for me" because of the limited set of categories. Wit should be able to handle those as well, from the looks of it.

drewch 13y ago
We (Maluuba) are actually working on improving nAPI and now have the ability to define your own domains and actions. It's not public yet, but we're planning on releasing it mid November.
- ragebol 13y ago
  Nice! I'll check back on Maluuba in November.

ragebol 13y ago

For the robot I'm working on, we're using http://wiki.ros.org/wire http://wiki.ros.org/wire to make probabilistic world models. When the API would not only return a confidence score for one possible interpretation, it would be interesting to get multiple interpretations with varying confidence scores, so you can somehow determine one that makes the most sense given your world model.

skram 13y ago

How "open" is Wit? Open source or open APIs allowing users to modify your algorithms/training data? I assume there would be a significant cost to being able to run our own instance of Wit on-premise, right? I applied for alpha access using the github username "marks"

ar7hur 13y ago
> How "open" is Wit? Openness is one of our core values. We're inspired by companies like GitHub. - Regarding data, we encourage users to share their data, making “public” Wit instances free of charge (à la GitHub). We’re also working on standard formats for NLP/ML data (models, sets, etc). - Regarding open-source, we plan to release our algorithms and infrastructure piecemeal (à la Prismatic). We’ll announce our open source plans in the near future.

ragebol 13y ago

I made a simple wrapper at https://github.com/yol/wit_ros https://github.com/yol/wit_ros Are there any test cases I can use, which utilize the full power of the API?