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Re:Show HN: Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be... by guptaneil on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:00AM (#6909235)
As with most projects that deal with parsing natural language, it works best when optimized for your use case. For example, I created a natural language date parsing library [https://github.com/Tabule/Sherlock] that is great at parsing events for entering into a calendar, but would fail if tested against an entire news article. The cool thing about knwl is that it is open-source and the code is very clean, meaning you can easily optimize it for your use case. Knwl lays the ground work for somebody to build a smarter parser into their app.
Re:Show HN: Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be... by c16 on Sunday December 15, 2013 @08:13AM (#6909264)
+ 1. I fully agree here, parsing for events data, parsing a news article or parsing tweets are all very different tasks and each one requires different optimizations.

An interesting project regardless, I'll likely be using this in the near future.

Re:Show HN: Knwl.js - Scan through text for data that may be... by rdgiii on Sunday December 15, 2013 @11:51AM (#6909942)
This is what I immediately thought of. They've built a nice small library that can be used as a framework for something more detailed and involved, which is fantastic.