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Show HN: NLP-based tool for technology research

55 points| BLP4YC | 6 years ago |researchly.app | reply

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[+] BLP4YC|6 years ago|reply
To avoid any confusion: I did not come up with most of these features. They are based on these papers (hopefully I have not forgotten any):

* Exploring technological opportunities by linking technology and products: Application of morphology analysis and text mining (Byungun Yoon a,⁎, Inchae Park a, Byoung-youl Coh b) * Technology opportunity discovery (TOD) from existing technologies and products: A function-based TOD framework (Janghyeok Yoon a, Hyunseok Park b, Wonchul Seo c, Jae-Min Lee d, Byoung-youl Coh d,⁎, Jonghwa Kim a,⁎⁎) * Investigating technology opportunities: the use of SAOx analysis (Kyuwoong Kim1 · Kyeongmin Park1 · Sungjoo Lee1) * Identification and monitoring of possible disruptive technologies by patent-development paths and topic modeling (Abdolreza Momeni a, Katja Rost b,⁎) * A New Product Growth for Model Consumer Durables (Frank M. Bass) * Identifying rapidly evolving technological trends for R&D planning using SAO-based semantic patent networks (Janghyeok Yoon • Kwangsoo Kim) * Innovation hotspots in food waste treatment, biogas, and anaerobic digestion technology: A natural language processing approach (Djavan De Clercq a, Zongguo Wen a,⁎, Qingbin Song b) * TrendPerceptor: A property–function based technology intelligence system for identifying technology trends from patents (Janghyeok Yoon, Kwangsoo Kim)

[+] Endlessly|6 years ago|reply
When looking at a paper, how would you decide if it was of use to you?
[+] BLP4YC|6 years ago|reply
What it does: Uses NLP to extract technology-related information form patents, Wikipedia etc. and then analyzes these technologies.

Technology-related information are: functions (what the technology can do) and properties/components (of what is this technology made up)

[+] xtiansimon|6 years ago|reply
I've toyed with scripts from my NLP research, but nothing to this extent. Kudos.

The webpage looks clean. The ratios of graphic elements to their scale is pleasant. The two-tone color palette is pleasant. The line length in the main screen (~140 c/l) is a bit much for my taste.

As far as the Try now, I'm not sure how these relate to each other. Maybe a video demo walk-through taking one technology, such as the digital watch (which we are all familiar) and walking it through the site?

As a "Try now" user, until I can throw in any random data and see it propagate through your product, I won't realize what you've accomplished.

[+] BLP4YC|6 years ago|reply
Thanks! I have been experimenting with NLP for two/three years now and this finally something somewhat useful. So your comment makes me really happay!

Thanks for your feedback regarding the main page. I also like the design, but not because I made, but because the developers behind the templates did such a great job: https://startbootstrap.com/themes/sb-admin-2/ + https://blackrockdigital.github.io/startbootstrap-landing-pa...

I probably should give them credit more prominently (right now, I do it only in the source code).

Regarding the "try now": I have never thought that this will be an issue. On the contrary, I thought that different data across different features will enable people to better understand the variety of the product. But what you are saying makes absolute sense. I have added your points to my todo.

Again, thanks a lot for your feedback - it really helped.

[+] crsn|6 years ago|reply
I’d like to chat more about this (including perhaps hiring you for a related project). Mind emailing me? [email protected]
[+] omeysalvi|6 years ago|reply
Who is the target market? Creators and inventors?
[+] BLP4YC|6 years ago|reply
Please, tell me. Kidding, but also not. Honestly, I am still unsure. I started working on it because I came across those features in different papers (if I remember correctly - by accident) and thought they were cool. So I started working on it.

But "creators and inventors" goes in the direction I was thinking. Additionally, innovation consultants, tech. advisors, "policy makers" or people who have to decide on technology but lack technical expertise in certain fields, engineers...