Show HN: We've developed a Natural Language API

http://dev.maluuba.com

by apetresc • 14 years ago

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dev.maluuba.com

SticksandFlicks• 14 years ago

NLP requires a lot of computation, how fast does your API run?

apetresc4• 14 years ago

It depends on the category, etc., but our own tests indicate about 100ms latency.

tych02• 14 years ago

Wow, 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)?

apetresc4• 14 years ago

Take a look at our ruby specs: https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-ruby/blob/master/maluuba_nap... There's nearly a hundred sample sentences and expected outputs -- and they all pass :)

drewch3• 14 years ago

If you prefer other languages, we also got:

Python: https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-python/blob/master/tests/tes...

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 }

tych02• 14 years ago

Cool, thank you very much!

zalew• 14 years ago

what are the limits? and I can't see any information about pricing.

drewch3• 14 years ago

It'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• 14 years ago

Example URLs complain about OAuth errors. Don't provide an example if it doesn't work properly.

apetresc4• 14 years ago

They 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!

ithcy22• 14 years ago

Very 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?

drewch3• 14 years ago

9 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.

apetresc4• 14 years ago

Right; the more important thing is that they all have a single intent.

webbruce• 14 years ago

Dude this is amazing, I want to try it for printavo

pdat• 14 years ago

You've been approved. enjoy!

pknight• 14 years ago

Would 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?

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