Unfortunately it doesn't parse a Scottish colloquial expression such as "the next again day at 4pm". Which means in two days time at 4pm :)
It also doesn't understand basic britishisms like "Friday week" or "a week on Friday"
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#62I hit "try me" button, but it does not work, nothing happens.
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#63I hit "try me" button, but it does not work, nothing happens.
Hey sorry little downtime on the demo site :) it's back now
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#64If you're having a big party
tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over
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#65If you're having a big party tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over you may be a half hour late.
Haha, nice example! If you want to do this you'd better use our full platform Wit.ai [1], that will arbitrate competition between the datetime entity (`tomorrow at three`) and the number_of_person entity!
[1] https://wit.ai
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#66> Intervals (like June 12-13) I wrote a Python library to do things like >>> r = Recurrence('June-July 2014').intersect(Recurrence('Monday to Friday')) >>> datetime.date(2014, 6, 13) in r True >>> datetime.date(2014, 6, 14) in r False If anyone is interested in hacking on it with me, send me an email and I'll try to get it up on github.
That sounds really useful.
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#67Looks very cool, but sadly I have no way to use Clojure on my iOS apps.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even though the demo website expects the whole input to be a time expression, Duckling actually detects substrings inside a larger block of text. We've mostly used it on short sentences, but it should work on larger inputs, like articles. I'd recommend splitting very large inputs into sentences though.
Demo site updated, now shows partial parses.
Great! I'm sure we will use it soon. Thanks!
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#69If you're having a big party tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over you may be a half hour late.
As a human, without a colon that thing is ambiguous.
It can be:
tomorrow at three thirty, people are coming over
Re: Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing
#70If you're having a big party tomorrow at three thirty people are coming over you may be a half hour late.
As a human, without a colon that thing is ambiguous. It can be: tomorrow at three thirty, people are coming over or: tomorrow at three, thirty people are coming over
Totally. I guess that was my point, that it's completely ambiguous, so I was curious to see which interpretation the algorithm picked.