Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API

This looks great. I'm building <a href="http://dokket.aws.af.cm" rel="nofollow">http://dokket.aws.af.cm</a>. It's a database filled with documents from the Federal Communications Commission. From day 1, I've been looking for smart ways to make use of the thousands of documents of unstructured text. The customization you offer seems to be the killer feature for me.<p>I'll write a Ruby api wrapper if you give me an agreed-upon amount of usage when you settle on pricing.<p>Feel free to email me (HN name @ gmail) if you're interested or just want to follow up for customer development purposes.<p>Best of luck!

Cool demo, but how do you guys compare to, say, Alchemy API ?<p>Also, no pricing =&#62; not cool.

This is just like stanford parser. <a href="http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/" rel="nofollow">http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/</a><p>Why use TextRazor and pay for it ?

No pricing at all on the website is fishy for anyone who wants to use the free plan?

Really impressive results. I put in some music reviews, and it did an excellent job of identifying artists, Genres, labels, etc. From an API perspective,there's not much out there that competes with this - and nothing with a modern API.

That's exactly what I need to start working again on my algo trader! Seems to be working well with a sample of financial news extracts. Will definitely look into it further, thanks!

This is very impressive stuff. I ran a news article through the demo, and the entity recognition was very impressive. Waiting for them to reveal more details on pricing.

Wow, this seems incredible, signed up immediately. My mind is already spinning with all of the cool apps I could make with this. How hard would it be to allow this functionality offline for paid users? You could have some sort of packaged library which phones home to count requests used, but does the processing offline to take network latency out of the equation. Not sure if that's feasible, but it would be great.

Being a big Prolog fan, I think this looks like an awesome product. This sort of textual analysis will become more important as time goes on. As the interest in search technologies grows, I think intelligent search (contextual queries, query answering, clustering, recommendations, meta-data extraction etc.) will start to appear in more end-user products. One question... whereabouts in the UK are you based?

Question: What are people actually doing with technology like this right now? (i.e. who are the people who see this and think.. yay, I'll sign up now!)

Great work! But I missed the "sentiment analysis" flavour that used to be so popular some years ago with the NLP bunch... In this sense, I did something similar:<p><a href="http://dtminredis.housing.salle.url.edu:8080/EmoLib/" rel="nofollow">http://dtminredis.housing.salle.url.edu:8080/EmoLib/</a><p>and<p><a href="http://nlptools.atrilla.net/web/omsa.php" rel="nofollow">http://nlptools.atrilla.net/web/omsa.php</a><p>Drop me a line if I can be of any help!

This looks amazing. Though when I put my name in it came up with: DBPedia types: Person Athlete Agent GolfPlayer owl#Thing

Very cool. This is essentially what I envisioned when I started work on <a href="http://www.textalyze.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.textalyze.com</a>.<p>Haven't devoted much time to it over the last couple months, but this provides a lot of inspiration.

I don't know if your just being slammed right now but I posted a request for pricing and haven't got anything.. it looks like a nice API to integrate into our system but it really needs clearer pricing..

Awesome stuff. It would be great to use something like this for suggesting relevant tags of content. Perhaps a WordPress or Drupal plugin to get the ball rolling.

This is the best Wikipedia-backed namex I've seen and I've seen a lot of them, worked on code for one, and even designed one. Awesome!

Wow, nice demo. I agree with the others the lack of pricing is a bit disconcerting.<p>Btw, anyone else read the title as "Trent Reznor"? I need a coffee...

Hi, would love to have this API listed on Mashape

Well done.