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0 pointslouthy11y ago0 comments

You could break the text up into sentences [1] and do sentiment analysis [2] on the sentences with 'remote' in. Then flag based on that.

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davidw11y ago· 1 in thread

Or you could hire people to do it via oDesk or Mechanical Turk. Not so interesting technically, but it's a job people are good at.

Hire people for cheap to help people be hired for $$$, with no reward for the upsell. Brilliant! :)

Wikify it.

Let users can log in and change the remote/non-remote status (and other attributes).

Have some kind of trust system (could be linked to HN points or whatever).

(Even better if the YC guys made a custom job board where you fill in a form with all the details so there is no inconsistency.)

nl11y ago

Sentiment analysis probably isn't the right option here, though it may work.

I think a combination of dependency parsing[1] and regex is the way to go.

regex examples: "Remote: No", "No remote please"

Dependency parsing examples: ""Remote work isn’t an option", "Remote work will not be considered"

Sentence segmentation and sentiment analysis may be overkill.

N-grams + Naive Bayes is potentially Good Enough.

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