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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/functions/src_autocomplete_autocomplete.suggestNextWordCompletions.html b/docs/functions/src_autocomplete_autocomplete.suggestNextWordCompletions.html index 724384c..7096b79 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_autocomplete_autocomplete.suggestNextWordCompletions.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_autocomplete_autocomplete.suggestNextWordCompletions.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ suggestNextWordCompletions | ai-research-agent
  • Completes the query with the most likely next words for phrases. If typing 2+ letters of a word, returns all possible words matching those few letters.

    -

    Parameters

    • query: string

      The input query which can be pertial words or phrases.

      +

      Parameters

      • query: string

        The input query which can be pertial words or phrases.

      • options: {
            limitMaxResults: number;
            numberOfLastWordsToCheck: number;
            phrasesModel: any;
        } = {}
        • limitMaxResults: number

          default=10 - The maximum number of autocomplete suggestions to return.

        • numberOfLastWordsToCheck: number

          default=5 - The number of last words in the query to check for phrase completions.

        • phrasesModel: any

          A custom phrases model to use for autocomplete suggestions.

          @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
          // Using options
          const customModel = await import("./custom-phrases-model.json");
          const suggestions = await suggestNextWordCompletions("artificial int", {
          phrasesModel: customModel,
          limitMaxResults: 5,
          numberOfLastWordsToCheck: 3
          });
          // Possible output: [{ phrase: "artificial intelligence" }, { phrase: "artificial interpretation" }]
          -
diff --git a/docs/functions/src_chrome_extension_allow_cors.modifyChromeAPIAllowCORS.html b/docs/functions/src_chrome_extension_allow_cors.modifyChromeAPIAllowCORS.html index 9984778..ca43ae4 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_chrome_extension_allow_cors.modifyChromeAPIAllowCORS.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_chrome_extension_allow_cors.modifyChromeAPIAllowCORS.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@

Returns void

chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => {
modifyChromeAPIAllowCORS(["qwksearch.com"]);
});
-
diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.compileTopicModel.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.compileTopicModel.html index b970dfb..902ea59 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.compileTopicModel.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.compileTopicModel.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  • minTermCharCount: number

    min length of term to include

  • outputJSExport: boolean

    filetype js instead of json with "export"

  • sortInFirstTwoLettersTrie: boolean

    sort the first words by first two letters Trie, needd for autocomplete after 2 letters typed

    -
  • Returns Promise<void>

    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.weightWikiWordSpecificity.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.weightWikiWordSpecificity.html index ad7a349..9e08c1f 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.weightWikiWordSpecificity.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compile_topic_model.weightWikiWordSpecificity.html @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3631674 https://github.com/SmartDataAnalytics/Wikipedia_TF_IDF_Dataset

    Parameters

    Returns number

    score for term specificity 0-12~

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compress_json_jz64.compressBase64ZipText.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compress_json_jz64.compressBase64ZipText.html index 94b4a23..98cd0ae 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compress_json_jz64.compressBase64ZipText.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_compress_json_jz64.compressBase64ZipText.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  • options: {
        compressionLevel: number;
        decompress: boolean;
    } = {}
  • Returns Promise<string>

    base64-encoded string of the zipped data

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_dictionary_import.importDictionary.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_dictionary_import.importDictionary.html index 59c6739..f381f12 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_dictionary_import.importDictionary.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_dictionary_import.importDictionary.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

    Returns any

    McCrae, J.P., Rademaker, A., Bond, F., Rudnicka, E., and Fellbaum, C. (2019). English WordNet 2019 – An Open-Source WordNet for English. In Proceedings of the 10th Global WordNet Conference – GWC 2019, Wrocław. https://aclanthology.org/2019.gwc-1.31/

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_human_names_import.importHumanNames.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_human_names_import.importHumanNames.html index 078ed1e..9da44b2 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_human_names_import.importHumanNames.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_human_names_import.importHumanNames.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ importHumanNames | ai-research-agent
    • Import 92k first and last human names sorted by popularity

      Returns any

      American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), a nonprofit which administers IP addresses, Github @arineng/arincli

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_misspelled_typos_import.importMisspelledTypos.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_misspelled_typos_import.importMisspelledTypos.html index c67c1a5..684f281 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_misspelled_typos_import.importMisspelledTypos.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_misspelled_typos_import.importMisspelledTypos.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Total unique typos collected: 7969

    Returns any

    Crowd-sourced often-updated Wikipedia list of common misspellings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_quora_import.importCommonQueries.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_quora_import.importCommonQueries.html index d53235e..ca8a065 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_quora_import.importCommonQueries.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_quora_import.importCommonQueries.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Quora question pairs dataset, great for training a semantic similarity model or Query-Response model

    Returns any

    Quora https://huggingface.co/datasets/BeIR/quora

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_term_frequency_import.importTermFrequency.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_term_frequency_import.importTermFrequency.html index b93ce85..e908041 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_term_frequency_import.importTermFrequency.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_term_frequency_import.importTermFrequency.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Total Articles (Wiki-en-2020): 5,989,879

    Returns any

    Galkin, M., Malykh, V. (2020). Wikipedia TF-IDF Dataset Release (v1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3631674 https://github.com/SmartDataAnalytics/Wikipedia_TF_IDF_Dataset

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_wikipage_titles_import.importWikiPageTitles.html b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_wikipage_titles_import.importWikiPageTitles.html index 9970159..41a3e50 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_wikipage_titles_import.importWikiPageTitles.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_dataset_import_wikipage_titles_import.importWikiPageTitles.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ importWikiPageTitles | ai-research-agent
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_author.extractAuthor.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_author.extractAuthor.html index 430760b..1255c46 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_author.extractAuthor.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_author.extractAuthor.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ extractAuthor | ai-research-agent
    • Extracts the author from the document and validates it as a human name

      Parameters

      • document: Document

      Returns any

      {author_cite, author_short, author_type} or null if no valid author found

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_cite.extractCite.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_cite.extractCite.html index 2255e30..bfdb118 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_cite.extractCite.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_cite.extractCite.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

    Article-extraction-benchmark

    Parameters

    Returns any

    {author, date, title, source}

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_date.extractDate.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_date.extractDate.html index 492a97d..f5f7f7c 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_date.extractDate.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_date.extractDate.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

    Parameters

    Returns string

    Extracted date or null if not found

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_source.extractSource.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_source.extractSource.html index e6ab23e..e988e8a 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_source.extractSource.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_source.extractSource.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ extractSource | ai-research-agent
    • Extract source from document using common class names

      Parameters

      • document: Document

        document or dom object with article content

      Returns any

      source

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_title.extractTitle.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_title.extractTitle.html index ac8f2cf..48aa1e4 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_title.extractTitle.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_extract_title.extractTitle.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ extractTitle | ai-research-agent
    • Extract and clean title from document

      Parameters

      • document: Document

        DOM object with article content

      Returns string

      Extracted and cleaned title

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_human_names_recognize.extractNamedEntity.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_human_names_recognize.extractNamedEntity.html index 68bb6be..59cbc8f 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_human_names_recognize.extractNamedEntity.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_human_names_recognize.extractNamedEntity.html @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Author type is ["single", "two-author", "more-than-two", "organization"] where organization is a non-human name that is not reversed.

    Parameters

    Returns any

    {author_cite, author_short, author_type}

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_metadata_to_cite.extractCiteFromMetadata.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_metadata_to_cite.extractCiteFromMetadata.html index 996d8e1..18314f7 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_metadata_to_cite.extractCiteFromMetadata.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_metadata_to_cite.extractCiteFromMetadata.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ extractCiteFromMetadata | ai-research-agent
    • Extract cite info from common property names in webpage's metadata

      Parameters

      • doc: Document

        dom object of document

      Returns any

      {author, date, title, source}

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_domain.convertURLToDomain.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_domain.convertURLToDomain.html index 9f32f7b..8420c14 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_domain.convertURLToDomain.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_domain.convertURLToDomain.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ https://wiki.mozilla.org/TLD_List https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

    Parameters

    Returns string

    rootDomain

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_favicon.extractFavicon.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_favicon.extractFavicon.html index 719f32d..bdbd33f 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_favicon.extractFavicon.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_cite_url_to_favicon.extractFavicon.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
    const favicons = await extractFavicon('https://github.com/')
     
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_extract_content.extractMainContent.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_extract_content.extractMainContent.html index 4bbb8fa..4147b07 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_extract_content.extractMainContent.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_extract_content.extractMainContent.html @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
    var url = "https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/business/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-charged.html"
    const html = await (await fetch(url)).text();
    var articleContent = extractMainArticle(html, {removeHTML: true});
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLSpecialChars.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLSpecialChars.html index d79cc52..c04619b 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLSpecialChars.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLSpecialChars.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
    convertHTMLSpecialChars('&lt;p&gt;This &amp; that &copy; 2023 &quot;Quotes&quot; &#39;Apostrophes&#39; &euro;100 &#x263A;&lt;/p&gt;', true)
    // Returns: "<p>This & that © 2023 "Quotes" 'Apostrophes' €100 ☺</p>"
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLToBasicHTML.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLToBasicHTML.html index 26b7770..8dfb0ca 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLToBasicHTML.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_basic_html.convertHTMLToBasicHTML.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  • url: string

    base URL for converting relative URLs to absolute

  • videos: boolean

    default=true - Whether to include videos or not

  • Returns string

    basic text formatting html

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_content.extractContent.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_content.extractContent.html index 8d1cc2d..098b98a 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_content.extractContent.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_html_to_content_html_to_content.extractContent.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ extractContent | ai-research-agent
    • Extracts the main content and cite from a document or HTML string

      Parameters

      • documentOrHTML: any
      • options: any = {}

      Returns any

      {title, author_cite, author_short, author, date, source, html}

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.extractPDF.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.extractPDF.html index 6a4d49a..eaffe1f 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.extractPDF.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.extractPDF.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  • removePageHeaders: boolean

    default=true - Removes repeated headers found on each page

  • timeout: boolean

    default=5 - http request timeout

  • Returns any

    HTML formatted text or {error} if error in parsing

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.isUrlPDF.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.isUrlPDF.html index 2ce12f2..98fea56 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.isUrlPDF.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_pdf_to_content.isUrlPDF.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Useful for hidden pdf url that does not end with pdf

    Parameters

    Returns Promise<boolean>

    True if the URL points to a PDF, false otherwise.

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_scrape_url.scrapeURL.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_scrape_url.scrapeURL.html index 8e17c08..6e0ac00 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_scrape_url.scrapeURL.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_scrape_url.scrapeURL.html @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
    await scrapeURL("https://hckrnews.com", {timeout: 5, userAgentIndex: 1})
     
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_url_to_content.extract.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_url_to_content.extract.html index e95b14d..cc3b1c2 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_url_to_content.extract.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_url_to_content.extract.html @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

    Returns Article

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_embed.embedYoutubePlayer.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_embed.embedYoutubePlayer.html index ee66cc7..888adb3 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_embed.embedYoutubePlayer.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_embed.embedYoutubePlayer.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
    // <div id="player"></div>
    const YT = embedYoutubePlayer();
    new YT.Player('player', {
    height: '360',
    width: '640',
    videoId: 'dQw4w9WgXcQ',
    events: {
    'onReady': onPlayerReady,
    'onStateChange': null,
    'onTimeChange': onTimeChange,
    }
    });
    function onPlayerReady(event) {
    event.target.playVideo();
    }
    function onTimeChange(time) {
    console.log(time)
    }
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_to_text.extractYoutubeText.html b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_to_text.extractYoutubeText.html index b69a491..082d4b5 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_to_text.extractYoutubeText.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_extractor_url_to_content_youtube_to_text.extractYoutubeText.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  • timeout: boolean

    default=5 - http request timeout

  • Returns any

    {content, timestamps} where content is the full text of the transcript, and timestamps is an array of [characterIndex, timeSeconds]

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_match_compare_letters.calculateSimilarityByCharacter.html b/docs/functions/src_match_compare_letters.calculateSimilarityByCharacter.html index d3a6b2c..65e5f1d 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_match_compare_letters.calculateSimilarityByCharacter.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_match_compare_letters.calculateSimilarityByCharacter.html @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ more weight to the common prefix of the strings and penalizing longer string differences. It is more optimal for varied text than Levenshtein distance, which is better for similar text.

    -

    Parameters

    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_match_match_quasar.matchQUASAR.html b/docs/functions/src_match_match_quasar.matchQUASAR.html index 4950a5a..14fcad3 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_match_match_quasar.matchQUASAR.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_match_match_quasar.matchQUASAR.html @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ matchQUASAR | ai-research-agent
    • QUASAR: Quotes-Unifying Alphanumeric Search-All RegExp

      Search document for all words of query ignoring casing -but "words in quotes" as necessarily together like in Google. -Single line function that can be used anywhere.

      -

      Parameters

      • document: string
      • query: string

      Returns boolean

      true if doc has all words and "words in phrases"

      +but "words in quotes" as necessarily together like users expect +in web search engines. Single line function that can be used +anywhere, such as UI inputs to filter a data list.

      +

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if doc has all words and "words in phrases"

    var isFound = matchQUASAR(`Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. 
    There is nothing to fear but fear itself.`, ` "Ask not" "but fear itself" nothing`)
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_match_softmax.calculateProbabilitySoftmax.html b/docs/functions/src_match_softmax.calculateProbabilitySoftmax.html index 5f60e2f..7e75488 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_match_softmax.calculateProbabilitySoftmax.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_match_softmax.calculateProbabilitySoftmax.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ to be interpreted as a probability distribution over the possible classes. Softmax is used in multi-class classification problems where there are more than two possible output classes.

    -

    Parameters

    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.calculatePhraseSpecificity.html b/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.calculatePhraseSpecificity.html index 420a481..eb1c5b2 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.calculatePhraseSpecificity.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.calculatePhraseSpecificity.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Words are tokenized into phrases and their specificity is calculated based on how many Wiki pages they appear in.

    Parameters

    Returns number

    domain specificity 0-12~

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.weighRelevanceTermFrequency.html b/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.weighRelevanceTermFrequency.html index c4372d6..883417e 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.weighRelevanceTermFrequency.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_match_weigh_relevance_frequency.weighRelevanceTermFrequency.html @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ weighRelevanceTermFrequency | ai-research-agent
    • Calculate term specificity for a single doc with BM25 formula by using Wikipedia term frequencies as the baseline IDF.
      ritvikmath (2023). "BM25 : The Most Important Text Metric in -Data Science". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBm9WywevM

      +Data Science". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruBm9WywevM +

      Parameters

      • document: string

        a single document to calculate the score for

      • query: string

        phrase to search tf and idf for each word

      • options: {
            avgDocWordCount: number;
            normalizeLength: number;
            saturationWeight: number;
            totalWikiPages: number;
        } = {}
        • avgDocWordCount: number

          Estimated average word count of all documents

          @@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ As saturationWeight increases: The impact of term frequency increases (i.e., multiple occurrences of a term in a document become more significant).

        • totalWikiPages: number

          Total number of Wikipedia pages used to calculate IDF

      Returns number

      score for term specificity

      -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_stream.searchSTREAM.html b/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_stream.searchSTREAM.html index bb5bb42..0c9d970 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_stream.searchSTREAM.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_stream.searchSTREAM.html @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
    const advancedResults = await searchSTREAM('Latest developments in quantum computing', {
    categoryIndex: 2,
    recencyIndex: 1,
    maxRetries: 5,
    maxTopResultsToExtract: 10
    });
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_web.searchWeb.html b/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_web.searchWeb.html index ad7b80a..c2be305 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_web.searchWeb.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_web.searchWeb.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
    const advancedResults = await searchWeb('Node.js', {
    category: 2,
    recency: 1,
    maxRetries: 5
    });
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_wikipedia.searchWikipedia.html b/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_wikipedia.searchWikipedia.html index c11d59c..30ead45 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_wikipedia.searchWikipedia.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_search_web_search_wikipedia.searchWikipedia.html @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
    await searchWikipedia("JavaScript", { plainText: true })
     
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.vectorizeTextAsConcept.html b/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.vectorizeTextAsConcept.html index b6f0373..325888a 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.vectorizeTextAsConcept.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.vectorizeTextAsConcept.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ m is number of features extracted by MiniLM-L6-v2 and values are similar if words are similar by that feature within m-dimensional "concept space"

    -

    Parameters

    Returns Promise<number[][]>

    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVector.html b/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVector.html index bec47a5..a60c3e0 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVector.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVector.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ based on cosine similarity of their concept vectors generated by a 20MB MiniLM transformer model downloaded locally. "A Complete Overview of Word Embeddings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MaWmXwxFNQ&t=323s

    -

    Parameters

    Returns Promise<{
        content: string;
        similarity: number;
    }[]>

    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVectorAPI.html b/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVectorAPI.html index c4f91da..e7a4184 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVectorAPI.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_similarity_similarity_concept.weighRelevanceConceptVectorAPI.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  • options: {
        HF_API_KEY: string;
        model: string;
    } = {}
  • Returns Promise<any>

    array of 0-1 similarity scores for each sentence

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_sentences.splitSentences.html b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_sentences.splitSentences.html index 1dcd59a..18e3b33 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_sentences.splitSentences.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_sentences.splitSentences.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  • minSize: number

    default=20 - Minimum size for a sentence.

  • splitOnHtmlTags: boolean

    default=true - Split on HTML tags like P, DIV, UL, OL.

  • Returns string[]

    An array of sentences.

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_stopwords.isWordCommonIgnored.html b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_stopwords.isWordCommonIgnored.html index d1aea06..30290a5 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_stopwords.isWordCommonIgnored.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_stopwords.isWordCommonIgnored.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ isWordCommonIgnored | ai-research-agent
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_text_to_chunks.splitTextSemanticChars.html b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_text_to_chunks.splitTextSemanticChars.html index 8bb9c44..c4aad72 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_text_to_chunks.splitTextSemanticChars.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_text_to_chunks.splitTextSemanticChars.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ splitTextSemanticChars | ai-research-agent
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_tokenize_topics.tokenizeTopics.html b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_tokenize_topics.tokenizeTopics.html index efbd848..da6fd77 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_tokenize_topics.tokenizeTopics.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_tokenize_topics.tokenizeTopics.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  • phrasesModel: any

    remote model

  • typosModel: any

    remote model

  • Returns Token[]

    ex. [[50, 0, "Albert Einstein"],...]

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_word_to_root_stem.convertWordToRootStem.html b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_word_to_root_stem.convertWordToRootStem.html index a56f005..7a7b806 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_tokenize_word_to_root_stem.convertWordToRootStem.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_tokenize_word_to_root_stem.convertWordToRootStem.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
    var rootWord = convertWordToRootStem("running"); // returns "run"
     
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_topic_distribution_topic_distribution.weighTopicDirichletDistribution.html b/docs/functions/src_topic_distribution_topic_distribution.weighTopicDirichletDistribution.html index 5d4a3d3..1793f2f 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_topic_distribution_topic_distribution.weighTopicDirichletDistribution.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_topic_distribution_topic_distribution.weighTopicDirichletDistribution.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ "Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) with Gibbs Sampling Explained" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPRjj8i_6yE
    https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/latent-dirichlet-allocation/
    "Topic Models" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK7nN3FcgUs

    -

    Parameters

    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_topics_ngrams.extractNounEdgeGrams.html b/docs/functions/src_topics_ngrams.extractNounEdgeGrams.html index 93b4217..3587874 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_topics_ngrams.extractNounEdgeGrams.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_topics_ngrams.extractNounEdgeGrams.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
    let terms = [["The", 1], ["quick", 2], ["brown", 2], ["fox", 3], ["jumps", 4]];
    let nGrams = {};
    extractNounEdgeGrams(3, terms, 0, nGrams, 3, 1);
    // nGrams might now contain: {3: {"brown fox jumps": [1]}}
    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_topics_rank_sentences_keyphrases.rankSentencesCentralToKeyphrase.html b/docs/functions/src_topics_rank_sentences_keyphrases.rankSentencesCentralToKeyphrase.html index 5c08a8d..c0b6c79 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_topics_rank_sentences_keyphrases.rankSentencesCentralToKeyphrase.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_topics_rank_sentences_keyphrases.rankSentencesCentralToKeyphrase.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3321408.3326659 https://doi.org/10.1145/3321408.3326659

    Parameters

    Returns any[]

    Updated array with added weights: [{text, keyphrases, weight}]

    -
    diff --git a/docs/functions/src_topics_seektopic_keyphrases.extractSEEKTOPIC.html b/docs/functions/src_topics_seektopic_keyphrases.extractSEEKTOPIC.html index 08f9d41..17770d9 100644 --- a/docs/functions/src_topics_seektopic_keyphrases.extractSEEKTOPIC.html +++ b/docs/functions/src_topics_seektopic_keyphrases.extractSEEKTOPIC.html @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
    extractSEEKTOPIC(testDoc, { phrasesModel, heavyWeightQuery: "self attention", limitTopSentences: 10,
     
    -
    diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 18a7547..92d24f6 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Join Discord

    -

    PR Welcome Badge

    NPM

    +

    PRs Welcome

    @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@

    +

    extract Docs

    - +

    Calculate term specificity for a single doc with BM25 formula by using Wikipedia term frequencies as the baseline Inverse Frequency across Documents. WikiBM25 solves the need to pass in all docs to compute against all documents in a database. The problem with BM25 and TF-IDF is that a large set of documents is needed to find the words that are repeated often across all. These overused words are often the same list of words, so using Wikipedia's term frequencies ensures a common sense baseline against a neutral corpus.

    Use this list to Replace or Combine with All Documents IDF - Many websites may have less than a hundred pages to search through and that is not enough to find which terms are domain-specific. They can score a single doc at a time to find the weight each word in query gets. Wikipedia IDf can be a baseline IDF to average with the All Docs IDF for uniqueness across the average public and the specific domain.

    @@ -86,7 +88,10 @@

    All words in English Wikipedia are sorted by number of pages they are in for 325K words with frequencies of at least 32 wikipages, between 3 to 23 characters of Latin alphanumerics like az09, punctuation like .-, and diacritics like éï, but filtering out numbers and foreign language.

    -

    Search-on-keystroke and load this JSON index for word and phrase completion, sorted by how common the terms are with IDF, for search autocomplete dropdown. Tokening by word can often have a meaning widely different than if it is part of a phrase, so it is better to extract phrases by first-word next-words pairings. Search results will be more accurate if we infer likely phrases and search for those words occuring together and not just split into words and find frequency. Examples are "white house" or "state of the art" which should be searched as a phrase but would return different context if split into words. As Led Zeppelin famously put it: ♫ "'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings."

    +

    + +

    +

    Search-on-keystroke and load this JSON index for word and phrase completion, sorted by how common the terms are with IDF, for search autocomplete dropdown. Tokening by word can often have a meaning widely different than if it is part of a phrase, so it is better to extract phrases by first-word next-words pairings. Search results will be more accurate if we infer likely phrases and search for those words occuring together and not just split into words and find frequency. Examples are "white house" or "state of the art" which should be searched as a phrase but would return different context if split into words. As Led Zeppelin famously put it: ♫ "'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings."