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Agreed. For kicks I dumped a bunch of dmr biographical material (Wired, NYT, his personal web page) into http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/siredemo.html http://ibml

by skorgu 12y ago

Agreed. For kicks I dumped a bunch of dmr biographical material (Wired, NYT, his personal web page) into http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/siredemo.html http://ibmlaser.mybluemix.net/siredemo.html Some "PERSONS" it found, everything between '' is [sic]: 'C' 'Cobol' 'B begat C.' '”' (yes, a single fancy closing quote) 'engineer' '’ initials' '’70s' '“Jobs’ genius' Some of it is understandable given how annoying single-character identifiers are to parse and others are roughly reasonable in context. Even given some of those quirks I bet it would be useful if you had bajillions of pages (cough ediscovery cough) to search through instead of a few general-audience articles.

shrikant 12y ago
For anyone else who wants to know, 'dmr' in parent post is Dennis Ritchie. (I knew this, but didn't make the association right away, and it's quite hard to search online for 'dmr')
- TillE 12y ago
  Searching for 'dmr person' does the trick with Google. Top result, and a sidebar of Dennis Ritchie.
- pdabbadabba 12y ago
  You should've asked Watson. Then you would have learned the truth: dmr is 's wear daily.
simias 12y ago
Yeah it's pretty bad, even inputing a well written news article like this one: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/08/return-of-john-galliano-more-than-matter-of-style http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/08/return-of-joh... ” PERSON its ORGANIZATION ’s Wear Daily PERSON shoulder pad DISEASE The rest is mostly correct (although random punctuation seems included at times) but it's nothing you couldn't get by word matching using a big dictionary. It reminded me to get tested for shoulder pads though, so there's that.
- deleted 12y ago
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- pesenti 12y ago
  We have a bug with quotes/punctuation that we are fixing now (that account for 1 & 3). "its" is not necessarily a mistake, it likely refers to the owner. "shoulder pad" is a mistake due to the probabilistic nature of the algorithms used.
- parsabg 12y ago
  FWIW I ran the article through AYLIEN's Text API and here's what I got: http://aylien.com/text-api-demo?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ffashion%2F2014%2Foct%2F08%2Freturn-of-john-galliano-more-than-matter-of-style&tab=concepts&run=1 http://aylien.com/text-api-demo?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegua... (disclaimer: I'm the founder of AYLIEN)
pesenti 12y ago
We have found a bug with character normalization (which messes up the parsing of the punctuation). We'll fix this today.
jonperl 12y ago
Interesting, this service is a lot like http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage
pesenti 12y ago
We fixed the bug with punctuation. Can you try again?
- skorgu 12y ago
  Took me a while but I retried. It's definitely better, to the point that I have to stretch a bit to find really bad errors. "B begat C" still makes it in as do a few similar ones but considering how pathological a case a single-letter identifier is I can forgive that. I assume because the identifiers aren't unique that they're returned in the underlying api as text locations. Hmm now I want to throw EDGAR data at this.

by skorgu 12y ago

shrikant 12y ago

For anyone else who wants to know, 'dmr' in parent post is Dennis Ritchie. (I knew this, but didn't make the association right away, and it's quite hard to search online for 'dmr')

TillE 12y ago
Searching for 'dmr person' does the trick with Google. Top result, and a sidebar of Dennis Ritchie.
pdabbadabba 12y ago
You should've asked Watson. Then you would have learned the truth: dmr is 's wear daily.

simias 12y ago

Yeah it's pretty bad, even inputing a well written news article like this one: http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/08/return-of-john-galliano-more-than-matter-of-style http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/08/return-of-joh... ” PERSON its ORGANIZATION ’s Wear Daily PERSON shoulder pad DISEASE The rest is mostly correct (although random punctuation seems included at times) but it's nothing you couldn't get by word matching using a big dictionary. It reminded me to get tested for shoulder pads though, so there's that.

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pesenti 12y ago
We have a bug with quotes/punctuation that we are fixing now (that account for 1 & 3). "its" is not necessarily a mistake, it likely refers to the owner. "shoulder pad" is a mistake due to the probabilistic nature of the algorithms used.
parsabg 12y ago
FWIW I ran the article through AYLIEN's Text API and here's what I got: http://aylien.com/text-api-demo?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ffashion%2F2014%2Foct%2F08%2Freturn-of-john-galliano-more-than-matter-of-style&tab=concepts&run=1 http://aylien.com/text-api-demo?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegua... (disclaimer: I'm the founder of AYLIEN)

pesenti 12y ago

We have found a bug with character normalization (which messes up the parsing of the punctuation). We'll fix this today.

jonperl 12y ago

Interesting, this service is a lot like http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage

pesenti 12y ago

We fixed the bug with punctuation. Can you try again?

skorgu 12y ago
Took me a while but I retried. It's definitely better, to the point that I have to stretch a bit to find really bad errors. "B begat C" still makes it in as do a few similar ones but considering how pathological a case a single-letter identifier is I can forgive that. I assume because the identifiers aren't unique that they're returned in the underlying api as text locations. Hmm now I want to throw EDGAR data at this.