Comments on: Parsing human-written date and time information http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Calendar software is natural for reading, but not for writing « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-127904 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:29:13 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-127904 [...] guess that’s why another recent item on parsing human-written date and time information struck a chord with readers. Until we create (and widely deploy) naturalistic interfaces, people [...]

]]> By: Searching for calendar information « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-126969 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:11:44 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-126969 [...] time, to try to evolve this into a robot that makes sense of the calendar information that people actually write, as opposed to the information that calendar programs constrain them to produce. But meanwhile this [...]

]]> By: Searching for calender information « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-126965 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:04:49 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-126965 [...] time, to try to evolve this into a robot that makes sense of the calendar information that people actually write, as opposed to the information that calendar programs constrain them to produce. But meanwhile this [...]

]]> By: Eric http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-126937 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:37:47 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-126937 We developed exactly what you are looking for on an internal project. We are thinking of making this public if there is sufficient need for it. Take a look at this blog for more details: http://precisionsoftwaredesign.com/blog.php.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested: contact@precisionsoftware.us

]]> By: Sen Hu http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-126311 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:24:02 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-126311 Use biterscripting for things like this. Just create a generic data/time processor function or script and reuse it over and over. Download free at http://www.biterscripting.com .

There are some sample scripts (one I use is at http://www.biterscripting.com/Download/SS_SearchWeb.txt – I don’t remember all of them but with the biterscripting download, all their sample scripts are downloaded also.)

Email me if you need more help.
(It may be some time before I can respond.)

Sen

]]> By: country of turkey http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-126148 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:13:35 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-126148 Oh,great! country of turkey 657439

]]> By: Stephen http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-125023 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:21:21 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-125023 The GNU coreutils have this functionality as seen in commands like “touch” and “at”.

]]> By: Avi Rappoport http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123425 Tue, 13 May 2008 19:22:33 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123425 All of this sounds very handy for search engine indexing and entity extraction. I’ll check out some of those packages.

]]> By: John Long http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123099 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:13:49 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123099 It’s not doing ranges and repeats just yet, but I’ve started a project in C# that handles dates such as “tomorrow”, “next friday”, or even “the 3rd tuesday in next june”.
http://www.codeplex.com/DateTimeEnglishParse

]]> By: Syndication of rules versus syndication of data « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123081 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:33:13 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123081 [...] of data Posted by Jon Udell under Uncategorized   To follow up on last week’s item about parsing the kinds of dates and times that people actually write, Google Calendar’s [...]

]]> By: bear http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123071 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:09:31 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123071 Looks like Parand above has already mentioned my library: parsedatetime for Python.

I would be extremely interested in any feedback for items it cannot handle.

One item it already handles is adjusting to different Locale’s day/month/year order.

]]> By: Warren Young http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123043 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:08:32 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123043 There’s a module in CPAN called Date::Manip that does this. It has a method called ParseDate() that does its best to figure out what a given input means. Then, once parsed, the rest of the module lets you work with dates in more computer-friendly ways.

]]> By: Links: 4-3-2008 http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123039 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:50:36 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123039 [...] Parsing human-written date and time information « Jon Udell Good stuff in the comments about parsing human generated (not computer generated) dates, need to check out Chronic. (categories: dates datetime parsing antlr chronic sandy ) [...]

]]> By: Saul Caganoff http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123037 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:13:39 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123037 Yes, I would point you to iwantsandy.com.

]]> By: Thursday night notes and links | clock — watching time, the only true currency http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/04/02/parsing-human-written-date-and-time-information/#comment-123036 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:44:34 +0000 http://jonudell.wordpress.com/?p=359#comment-123036 [...] Udell goes LazyWeb with “Parsing human-written date and time information, and the commenters come through, especially with DateJS.com. Not the only solution, though. [...]

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