A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by hegivor on Saturday May 14, 2016 @10:05AM (#11696176)

Perhaps I am misunderstanding the example but isn't the date parsing result from the API documentation incorrect.

  nlp.value("I married April for the 2nd time on June 5th 1998 ").date()
  // [Date object]   d.toLocaleString() -> "04/2/1998"

https://github.com/nlp-compromise/nlp_compromise/blob/master...

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by thomasahle on Saturday May 14, 2016 @10:24AM (#11696249)

Maybe they want to show us the limitations? This makes it seem like they are not doing any fancy grammar parsing.

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by guptaneil on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:35PM (#11697178)

If you're looking for a library that could handle that sentence, check out https://github.com/neilgupta/sherlock :)

nlp-compromise definitely does way more, but in NLP, it helps to be domain-specific.

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by btown on Saturday May 14, 2016 @04:01PM (#11697801)

Does anyone know if there's an equivalent library in Python?

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by eloisius on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:49PM (#11698416)

nltk, maybe: http://www.nltk.org/

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by glibgil on Saturday May 14, 2016 @05:14PM (#11698062)

No, no one knows

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by earleybird on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:15PM (#11698299)

I believe that is:

  nlp.text('No one knows.').people()[0].text
  'No one'

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by hurricaneSlider on Sunday May 15, 2016 @06:05AM (#11700241)

Was that sarcasm necessary?

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by userbinator on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:20PM (#11696762)

No 4th or February in the string either... yet another example of how unambiguous date parsing in natural languages is very, very difficult. Also an example of why ISO-8601 is awesome.

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by themartorana on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:40PM (#11697209)

Everyone always looks at me funny when I write my dates as `yyyy-mm-dd` - until, that is, I explain that it sorts alphabetically perfectly. That's the moment I can convert people to ISO-8601 converts.

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by gengkev on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:08PM (#11701988)

I write dates that way too, but because mm/dd/yyy is ambiguous in an international context. Sorting correctly is great as well!

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by hueving on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:52PM (#11696955)

April 2nd.

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by usmannk on Saturday May 14, 2016 @01:28PM (#11697141)

That's the wrong date though. The person's name is April.

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by kuzmin on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:52PM (#11697523)

Yes, but you can still see how the model (mistakenly) arrives at this date

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Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript by petemill on Saturday May 14, 2016 @12:44PM (#11696908)

April = 4

2nd = 2

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