{"id":235,"date":"2016-04-04T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/04\/a-new-site-can-find-movies-by-describing-them-for-the-most-part\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:41:00","slug":"a-new-site-can-find-movies-by-describing-them-for-the-most-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/04\/04\/a-new-site-can-find-movies-by-describing-them-for-the-most-part\/","title":{"rendered":"A new site can find movies by describing them&#8230; for the most part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/whatismymovie.com\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-rXN87DmJfbI\/VwLV_8KAonI\/AAAAAAAACPc\/MPINBWZOlCUh2rcRFukT0ugd54H9np8iQ\/s320\/realgenius.png\" width=\"168\" \/><\/a>Every once in a while, we get stumped trying to remember a certain movie starring a certain actor. Usually those questions can be answered with a quick search (or by asking your librarian!), but there are trickier ones too: how do you find a movie by the subject matter? Today, we stumbled across a new site attempting to make all movies searchable with natural language results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatismymovie.com\/\">What is My Movie?<\/a> is a tech demo for technology by a video analysis company called Valossa, which aims to make videos machine-readable by their content in conjunction with transcripts. Valossa has so far parsed 40,000 movies for their content; you can search by year of release or director, like anywhere else, but you can also look for information about the content and themes of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it works well: &#8220;Paul Newman movies from the 70s about hockey&#8221; brings up <i>Slap Shot<\/i>. Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t work well: &#8220;sad movies starring Brad Pitt&#8221; brings up <i>Slap Shot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>What is My Movie? is definitely a work-in-progress, but using movie searching as a proof-of-concept for their engine is a clever, practical use of the technology. Take it for a spin and see if it turns up your favorite movie by a description. When there&#8217;s finally <a href=\"http:\/\/whatismymovie.com\/results?text=a+comedy+starring+Daniel+Day-Lewis+about+competitive+eating&amp;qid=6f7d9058-464c-415d-9a58-3376fdeaf41c\">a comedy starring Daniel Day-Lewis about competitive eating<\/a>, we&#8217;ll be able to track it down.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, we get stumped trying to remember a certain movie starring a certain actor. Usually those questions can be answered with a quick search (or by asking your librarian!), but there are trickier ones too: how do you find a movie by the subject matter? Today, we stumbled across a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}