Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing

Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by aembleton on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:24PM (#8395656)

I'm impressed. I thought I'd try it with `next wednesday at 20 to 3 in the afternoon`. It understood!

It didn't understand if I used `afternon`. Perhaps as an improvement it could try selecting the most likely word from misspellings.

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by ar7hur on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:27PM (#8395680)

Thanks! Yes we should probably relax a little bit the lexical analysis to cope with typos, thanks for your feedback.

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by chc on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @02:35PM (#8396701)

I don't even understand that. What time period is that meant to specify?

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by radnor on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @02:40PM (#8396729)

20 to 3 in the afternoon = 2:40 PM

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by infogulch on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:04PM (#8396911)

Oooh, "twenty minutes until three". I typically use until or shorten it to 'till. But I've seen/heard to as well.

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Re:Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing by samdb on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:13PM (#8396970)

'To' is the most common version in British English.

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