Show HN: API to add bad words to English texts

http://cursingapi.com/

by espinchi • 12 years ago

10 15 12 years ago

cursingapi.com

ompemi2• 12 years ago

Interesting, which libraries did you use?

luisobo• 12 years ago

I assume you meant: "Interesting, which libraries did you use asshole"

http://goo.gl/NBPMm9

espinchi4• 12 years ago

Natural Language Toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/) for Python.

The initial code for the "insulter.py", the core, was no more than 150 lines. We'll probably make our repository public at some point so you can check it out.

ompemi2• 12 years ago

Are the thumbs up/down used to train the system? Looking forward to the code

yzap• 12 years ago

Pretty neat. From solely using that the prepopulated example input, my main gripe would be that it doesn't get a/an correct in the "cursed up" version of the sentence.

espinchi4• 12 years ago

Funny we didn't notice that!

Yes, that's true. And that's a fairly poorly written example.

adrianonantua• 12 years ago

Some tech text becomes very amusing: http://goo.gl/FzVBBv

mikerg87• 12 years ago

This reminds me of the old dialectizer that would rewrite web pages in specific dialects.

justizin• 12 years ago

this comes nowhere-the-fuck near cursing as dynamically as i can. ;)

b_emery2• 12 years ago

Gives me an idea for a new kind of Turing test ...

bearlikelion• 12 years ago

It's a neat tool but I wish it could better parse paragraphs and commas. I also had a few responses with the same curse words three or four times in a block of text making it a fucking boring read.

espinchi4• 12 years ago

Yep, our dictionaries for adjectives, adverbs and nouns are tiny at the moment

b_emery2• 12 years ago

I was thinking it would be more like readability, but instead of reformatting the html, inserting curse words. How much more fun would cnn.com be?! But a good start!

taternuts• 12 years ago

I'd check into the a/an issue (http://i.imgur.com/ZT7Nf57.png), at least for the default/example phrase. Pretty funny though!

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