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by mbroshi 2000 days ago
This is a great idea! I tried it on a 200-page document [1], and it took over a minute to process in my browser, and the result seems to be about 75% highlighted. Not sure if it's the "math-ese" or length that is the issue.

One cool thing is that it highlighted both the same sentences in English and French. I presume you translate the text before analyzing.

[1] https://www.math.mcgill.ca/darmon/theses/leahy/thesis.pdf

1 comments

Hi mbroshi,

There's no translation being done at all! It's completely language-agnostic (apart from some hardcoded signal words, which I only noted down in English).

Really large documents such as entire books or theses are supported, but as you've experienced it results in a far from ideal experience at this point. Thanks for reporting this and linking to the document, now I know that this is a problem worth addressing. :)