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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   I'll remove the comparison to Gensim :). It really wasn't meant to be an attack on Gensim. I think it's a good and versatile library that handles a lot, but the aim of Magnitude was to be what Keras is to TensorFlow, a simple
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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   Hey Radim, Shoot me an e-mail (link in HN profile), we just created this a few days ago, so it hasn't been up long, and happy to fix any disagreements in the benchmarks. You're absolutely right about Annoy Indexing, but to be fa
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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   We just open sourced a easy to use library called Magnitude that handles out-of-vocabulary words and uses Annoy indexing for fast most_similar queries for word2vec, GloVE, and fastText: https://github.com/plasticityai/m
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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   We've recently created an open source library that can help you get started with pre-trained word vectors and Annoy quickly: https://github.com/plasticityai/magnitude
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   Show HN: Magnitude: A fast, efficient universal vector embedding utility package(github.com)

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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   Yes, exactly, we think there are a range of applications that will need this kind of common sense information on-hand in the not too distant future.
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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   Sign up for a developer account to stay updated and shoot me an email at ajay@plasticity.ai if you'd be interested in sharing your use case, we'd love to learn more.
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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   Thanks for trying it out. We're not intending for it to be extremely domain specific at this point, but as we add more data sources our coverage will get better.
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   by patelajay285 9y ago

   Good question! We mentioned this in another comment, but a lot of the comments on this thread are about our Cortex Knowledge Graph API, but we actually think of the Sapien Language Engine API as our main product. We think being able to unde
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    We've done some experimental work with other languages (specifically Chinese). We think the Cortex Knowledge Graph API will do well when moved into other language domains, but the Sapien Language Engine will likely require full-rewrite
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Uh-oh, looks like it's the non-ASCII characters that are crashing our interface. We'll fix this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention and the kind comment!
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Yes, it will perform abstractive summarization (re-writing the language in the text) vs. just extractive summarization, which just pulls out high-importance sentences from text. But we'll offer both just in case.
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Thanks for the question. Yes, we are! Signup as a developer and you will be notified when we release them. We'd also love to understand your use case so drop me a line at ajay@plasticity.ai if you're interested in talking.
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    You're right, it's on the roadmap for Cortex along with: 1) ordered queries ("Who is the 44th president?") 2) comparison queries ("Is Bill Gates older than Steve Ballmer?") 3) simple logic queries (AND/OR)
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Makes sense, we haven't really optimized the ease-of-use of our demos / documentation yet, but are going to work on that soon.
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Great question! Text simplification and summarization are great places this technology can be deployed for non-commercial usage. One example is https://newsela.com which provides articles on many different subjects at various re
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Thanks! That's good feedback on the layout, we're changing it now!
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Yes, this is definitely a class of questions we don't do right now, but have updates coming for soon! Good catch on "Prime-Minister", we will patch that.
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Thanks! Fair question, we think spaCy is great, but it just made a lot of sense for us to start on the basics so that we could modify things as needed. For example, our tokenization algorithm and syntax dependency tree algorithm treats &qu
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    It scared us as kids :)
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Thanks for catching that! We don't do anything like that, in fact, we don't work with the government at all right now. We know that there is a huge application of this technology in the government beyond the Department of Defense.
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    A lot of the comments on this thread are about our Cortex Knowledge Graph API, but we actually think of the Sapien Language Engine API as our main product. We think being able to understand the semantic meaning behind language through our g
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Right now we think of Cortex as a competitor to Google KnowledgeGraph and WolframAlpha, rather than a common sense knowledge graph. But, we hope to answer questions like that one day :)
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Thanks for checking it out! There are definitely question domains that need work and some overfitting problems but we wanted to get this out to HN community early and see what they thought.
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    by patelajay285 9y ago

    Thanks for pointing this out - we didn't know about this case and it's cool to see Cortex can answer it correctly! For data sources right now, we use Wikipedia for Cortex but we're planning to add additional ones soon to hand
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    Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

    93 points by patelajay285 9y ago|47 comments