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DeepRegex: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions from Natural Language

by nicklo on 8/11/16, 4:17 PM with 21 comments

  • by nicklo on 8/11/16, 5:24 PM

    Hey HN! One of the authors here. This was a fun project to work on. Happy to answer any questions :)

    Code + data here: https://github.com/nicholaslocascio/deep-regex

  • by RankingMember on 8/11/16, 4:53 PM

    As soon as I saw the title I started thinking of how great it would be to have a solid NaturalLanguage -> Regex translator, something I've always wanted. Regex is so powerful, but sometimes it takes so long to get it to do what you want it to.

  • by duaneb on 8/11/16, 5:56 PM

    The applications of this for scraping alone are amazing