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retextjs / retext

natural language processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective
https://unifiedjs.com
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retext-knwl #28

Closed janwirth closed 8 years ago

janwirth commented 8 years ago

So there is this seemingly abandoned piece of software called knwl.js. I am fairly unfamiliar with retext and it's ecosystem but still I was wondering if it might make sense to create a knwl-js plugin for retext. This would enable basic NER.

wooorm commented 8 years ago

Thanks for suggesting. It would be possible to create some tool like this for retext, but I'm not (no longer) interested in creating it. The reason being that retext's power comes from retext-equality, retext-simplify, spelling detection, and the like, rather than plain natural language processing. The syntax tree format used internally is really useful for detecting patterns as seen in these plug-ins, and less so for phone numbers (which can be better found using a regex than a syntax tree).

Hope this helps!

janwirth commented 8 years ago

Thank you for the insight! What I gathered is that retext is a completely different thing and NER is out of scope.

wooorm commented 8 years ago

Quite right!