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You should submit this! I think it’s a great idea.

One way that people discover books is by listening to / reading about authors they enjoy, talking about other books and authors that they enjoy.

There’s an NLP problem in there for sure, because they like to both bash and praise certain people.

It’d be amazing to have a searchable graph of “Tolstoi likes Turgenev likes Gustave Flaubert”. There could even be a time aspect to it, as certain writers hated or loved their contemporaries as time went on.

At present, authors and literary people have these graphs in their heads, it would be nice to write them all down and expose them. At present it’s quite laborious to bootstrap such a mental graph by yourself, as a student or hobbyist.




Thanks!! I was going to submit it Monday morning :)

Oh I am so excited about NLP!!! Toward July the backend is getting more details around the type of topics so I can start training models eventually.

You nailed it, I can't wait to get that going and start playing :)


How is DBpedia for books? Could it play a role in bootstrapping your database?


Very cool, I just talked with a NLP expert and they had recommended it as well. I honestly haven't dug into that aspect yet as I've just been grinding away to get the basics going. This might help a lot!




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