AvengerPenguin

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   by AvengerPenguin 18y ago

   Ah, that's quite a neat idea really. I do think you're going to have to stick to a fixed syntax here though. People are already familiar with the standards of "Re: and Fw:" on the Internet, so it's not that far-fetched for people to learn "
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   by AvengerPenguin 18y ago

   Also remember that some ways are impossible to tell apart. 12/10/2008, for example, is 12th October for us in the UK, but 10th December for Americans. There's simply no way to guess at which it is without some context or the user saying whi
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   by AvengerPenguin 18y ago

   Despite all my obvious love for NLP and grammars, I would actually like to echo markessien's point here. I agree that NLP might not be the best approach here, especially if you're having to learn all of it from scratch (I'm no expert but I
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   by AvengerPenguin 18y ago

   "Remind" might solve the date side of it, but you'll still need to parse it out. I've thought about a similar thing before and the approach I was looking to take was using something like: http://www.nltk.org/ to create grammar trees (read
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   by AvengerPenguin 18y ago

   The old unix reminder system, "remind", is what I use as the core of my calendar system. It's very good at parsing dates in different formats and is based on text files with lines such as "REM <date string> MSG <text relevant to