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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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