Hello Brian
Brian Suda wrote:
2008/8/4, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
There are (in my view) only three real ways to resolve this issue
...
3 Support NLP (Natural Language Processing) <span class="duration">3
minutes 23 seconds</span>.
I personally am in favour of number 3 as I believe it is not too difficult
to build a parser that will process just durations (hours minutes seconds)
as long as there is an agreed format.
--- any sort of NLP is much harder than you think! If we are back to
codifying something, either we build it in english (which people would
disagree with) or having an list of all known way to spell, decline
and abbreviate hours in all known human languages. Is is very much a
boiling the oceans solution.
-brian
I disagree (slightly) consider this
<span class="duration">1 hour 3 minutes 23 seconds</span>
or this
<span class="duration">1 heures 3 minutes 23 secondes</span>
The parser already knows that this is a duration and the contents are a
Numerical value and thus text (words) are striped as they are nothing
to do with the value, they are only there for a human to understand
would leave us with...
<span class="duration">1 3 23</span>
as long as we we know what format this is supposed to represent , the
first number is an hour, the second minutes, and third seconds and this
is documented as a decided format then it would be fairly straight
forward after that to output any format you like.
Thanks
Martin McEvoy
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