Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machine Learning

Re:Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machi... by parsabg on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @08:37AM (#7258020)

> Do you publish accuracy figures?

we'd love to, but unfortunately some of our main competitors have restricting terms in their ToS (e.g. http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/terms.html) that prevent us from doing so. we will publish what we can though.

> Any information about what domains your training data is from?

they're mostly trained on general news and social media content (with lots of manual and automated cleanup). drop us an email if you need more details: [email protected]

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Re:Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machi... by syllogism on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:28AM (#7258232)

I don't care what alchemy scores --- I care what _you_ score.

Why can't you just run any of the standard NLP evaluations?

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Re:Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machi... by yen223 on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @08:50AM (#7258062)

I'm curious - how does a competitor's ToS prevent your company from doing anything?

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Re:Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machi... by Blahah on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:02AM (#7258110)

The competitors don't allow you to benchmark their services, so while you can benchmark your own product you can't compare it to others. For example, from the Alchemy API:

YOU MAY NOT ACCESS THE SERVICES FOR PURPOSES OF MONITORING THEIR AVAILABILITY, PERFORMANCE OR FUNCTIONALITY, OR FOR ANY OTHER BENCHMARKING OR COMPETITIVE PURPOSES

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Re:Show HN: An easy-to-use Text Analysis API – NLP and Machi... by malkung on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:38AM (#7258269)

Also this: "publish or perform any benchmark or performance tests or analysis relating to the Service or the use thereof without express authorization from AlchemyAPI;"

Suppose I am evaluating their service, before I decide to buy. I would be breaking these ToS, I guess.

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