Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ragebol on Thursday September 12, 2013 @09:45AM (#6373914)

Interesting! Nothing happened after I registered with my Github account though using Opera. I also wonder how this compares to http://www.maluuba.com/ ?

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ar7hur on Thursday September 12, 2013 @09:52AM (#6373956)

> how this compares to 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.

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ragebol on Thursday September 12, 2013 @10:27AM (#6374222)

Awesome! I made a wrapper around Maluuba for ROS before (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.

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by drewch on Thursday September 12, 2013 @10:40AM (#6374324)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ragebol on Friday September 13, 2013 @05:09AM (#6379350)

Nice! I'll check back on Maluuba in November.

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ragebol on Thursday September 12, 2013 @10:57AM (#6374450)

For the robot I'm working on, we're using 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.

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by skram on Thursday September 12, 2013 @11:31AM (#6374655)

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"

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ar7hur on Thursday September 12, 2013 @12:16PM (#6374994)

> 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.

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by ragebol on Sunday September 15, 2013 @05:05PM (#6390327)

I made a simple wrapper at https://github.com/yol/wit_ros

Are there any test cases I can use, which utilize the full power of the API?

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Re:Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app by blandinw on Thursday September 12, 2013 @09:52AM (#6373953)

Regarding Opera, it has been tested and everything should work as expected!

Can you email me your GitHub username at [email protected] to make sure we got your request? Thanks!

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