Great job! I encourage you to continue improving it.<p>I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling:<p><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png</a><p><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp2.png" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp2.png</a><p><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp3.png" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp3.png</a><p><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp4.png" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp4.png</a><p>In short, the results aren't relevant at all -- either to the author or to his audience. (The third screenshot is particularly conspicuous.)<p>I can think of some domains where this could be pretty handy -- you should try feeding your algorithm a stream of tweets and see what happens.<p>All in all, this hasn't been done before and was presented quite nicely. Well done.
This is very very cool, and makes for a good demo too.<p>One suggestion would be to put the latest topic on top - or at least vertically near where you type.<p>Second being able to pick the corpus being used for matching. might make it interesting. Say IEEE or ACM, or PubMed. Might bring up interesting things that others have written that are similar, which they've not noticed before.<p>I can see a very good match with technical writing, publications, etc. Esp if you can pull in excerpts. This would make for much better writing for many who may not have Eng as first language.<p>Neat!
An interesting idea, but it comes up with really, really useless suggestion -- I don't think anybody needs to be told what don't is, west may be a cardinal direction but 'in the west we enjoy' does not refer to particular side of a compass.<p>Also for some reason it blinks with 1. AD is a year (I did write the word one, but it really shouldn't blink).
FYI: relevant, not relevent.<p>It's a cool idea, but presented in a sidebar like that i think it's mostly a distraction. when you're writing you want less outside information, not more.
The idea is that as you type, some relevant information about what you are typing should appear. Long term, it should integrate search into document editing and simplify the writing process. This is currently far from perfect, I just put it together on the past 4 hours.
Nice Work!<p>Your https doesn't work for me because you make calls to the unsecured duckduckgo api and chrome refuses.<p>You should use: <a href="https://api.duckduckgo.com" rel="nofollow">https://api.duckduckgo.com</a>
I would like to see the ability to drag and drop the text directly into the editor... and an ability to choose the sources for obtaining information (Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia etc). Also, if you could highlight individual results and run a lookup against them you could drill down even further making the information more relevant... and as a sidenote, I be would inclined to target the student market whom could use this as a study tool (or lifesaver for last minute assignments)
Is it just me, or are we missing the source code? Would be nice to have a peek.<p>Edit: Sorry, didn't see that is was just JS!
EditEdit: But where is the source to /keywords
Wow, this is very very relevant to something I've been thinking of for the past few months -- if you're interested in collaborating, shoot me an email.
So... does this actually work?<p>I'm using the latest Safari and OS X 10.8... if I delete the contents of the text box, four of the terms on the right remain.<p>If I enter new content... still just those four terms.<p>edit: the more I write, the less terms there are on the right, but they're still terms from the original content... if I type a word twice, I get the definition... three times and it goes away.
This is really cool and I can definitely see it being useful once the kinks are worked out.<p>Without repeating most of the feedback given already, I’ve noticed that it picks up too many pointless words. I’d suggest making it more selective with the words picked out to be relevant. Quality over quantity.
I was just testing it using other top news on HN, like this one: Roy Bates's death.<p>It seems there is a bug when I enter this line:<p><pre><code> "Roy Bates died on"
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Paddy Roy Bates's wiki page keeps getting added to the right column continuously.
It might be useful to show relevant content from my local system on things that I've written already, like maybe notes from a project, or excerpts from email.<p>Writing code, similar suggestion, showing other code, requirements, design, etc.
I wrote a text with "German constitution" and now it's stuck in a loop fetching the information to "Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany".<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/0QaY2.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/0QaY2.png</a>
The real time information is neat!<p>FYI, This feature is available (in non-real time manner) in Google Docs and Microsoft Word, which are powered by Google Search and Bing respectively to research terms, images and relevant content.
Ooh! I had the same idea about providing contextual information. But you executed on it. This is a wonderful tool that I'd use. All the best. Keep improving it.
In Firefox 16.0.1 on Linux, if I type a letter after the pre-existing text then the browser opens a tab that I had previously closed. Works fine on Chromium.
looks cool ... what I have always found missing in text editors is a local undo (each line maintains its own undo history) ... bad from user experience and weird requirement I know but something like that would be useful for some programmers IMHO.
hey that's pretty cool. given that i was just reading about ted nelson's project xanadu this fits pretty neatly with that.<p>hopefully you can tune it to ignore various words that have less impact on things and instead focus on more core and unique elements.
if you want to do this sort of entity recognition, there is Apache Stanbol which is quite useful: <a href="http://stanbol.apache.org/" rel="nofollow">http://stanbol.apache.org/</a>