
If you want to give the service a try, just head over here and plug a URL into Aylien’s API demo.Īll of the data comes back as JSON and the company uses Mashape to sell access to its data. Developers who need to make fewer than 1,000 API calls per day get free access to the service, and those who need more can sign up for paid plans, starting at $199 for 6,000 calls per day. The company is working on support for other languages. It doesn’t like texts in languages other than English, though, and was almost 100 percent confident that this German post about Google’s latest Street View project expansion was actually about curling. I’ve used the API for a couple of personal projects and with the exception of a few issues, it worked as advertised. The API allows developers to quickly extract basic data like headlines and the body of text from a document, but it also offers a summarization service, entity and concept extraction, and language and sentiment detection. He then set out to build the technology, and the result of this - after almost three years of work - is Aylien. It turned out, though, that the underlying technology for this didn’t exist.

Ghaffari told me that he first applied to the accelerator program with the idea for a product that used NLP to automatically pull up relevant data while you were writing about it. The service was founded by Dublin, Ireland-based Parsa Ghaffari, with the backing of Chinaccelerator. Now, Aylien is joining the fray with its own text-analysis API, the first in a series of developers services the company is working on.

Over the years, a number of companies like Alchemy and Thomson Reuters have launched services based on natural language processing (NLP) and machine-learning algorithms to help developers more easily extract meaning from documents.
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While code has to be unambiguous, words tend to be anything but.

Working with text is often a messy business for programmers.
