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Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by drakaal on Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:50PM (#6454581)
Google released hummingbird, and it is cool for structured data, but what about unstructured data? That's where http://samuru.com is looking to change the way people search.

We read a tech crunch article that said humming bird was going to answer all our questions using NLP. It didn't seem to do that, so we said, "let's take the afternoon and put the ability to answer questions in to our search engine."

We did that. Here is the slightly unpolished Alpha of the feature.

Ask some questions like: Why are kittens cute

Why are barns red

Why are gas prices so expensive

Should I buy a house

It won't answer everything, but it will answer a lot.

Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by matiasb on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:45PM (#6454760)
"why is burger king bad?" "You know Burger King is bad because it is even worse than McDonalds, according to yelp.com"
Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by matiasb on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:48PM (#6454781)
I like the project, would be nice to see what can be done in the future!
Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by drakaal on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:54PM (#6454798)
This is pretty early stage. Minimum viable product for a search engine is a big task. Minimum viable product for a system that mines unstructured data is even bigger. But I think we have a good start.
Re:Show HN: Natural Language Querying by drakaal on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:47PM (#6454774)
You can't argue with that logic. :-)