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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by phorese on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @06:28AM (#6920561)
The time regex is, too. In German you can expect to encounter the text fragment

> um 6:00 am 05.12. (at 6:00 on 12/05/..)

If i read it correctly, the time regex would extract "6:00 am" as time, but the "am" is wrong (German uses 24h format).

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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by jrabone on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @07:11AM (#6920671)
Haha that's excellent. Reminds me of a normalisation rule I wrote as part of a larger system to convert "Joe Bloggs Md." into "Dr. Joe Blogs MD" (where MD is Medical Doctor). TIL that "Md." is a common abbreviation for "Mohammed" in large parts of the world...
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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by petepete on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:26AM (#6921217)
The text-to-speech system in use at my local GP's surgery (that announces to patients which which rooms they need to go to) pronounces 'Dr' as 'Drive', rather than 'Doctor'. I thought someone would have tested that!
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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by abolibibelot on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @06:43AM (#6920596)
When dealing with this general problem, the proper tool would more likely be language/culture detection + Named-Entity Recognition.

Simple regular expressions can be good enough if you're aware of the domain restriction though.

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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by madisonmay on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @11:38AM (#6922025)
Yeah, I threw together this module intending to supplement NER on a text classification project I'm currently working on, not as a replacement for NER.
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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by sokoloff on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @07:16AM (#6920686)
"Um 12:30 am..." seems like a better example, since 6:00 is still 0600, but one parsing would make 12:30 am into 0030 rather than the intended 1230.
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Re:Common Regular Expressions Made Simple by phorese on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @09:06AM (#6921103)
Heh, thanks. I only looked at misparsing and didn't think about the consequences :D
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