How to extract relative time entities from a sentence?

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I need to replace relative time entity by it's real time from a sentence. If Current date is 25-Feb-2014 then the following input produce corresponding output.

Input:
1. Who won the ballon d'or last year?
2. How many people had died at road accident yesterday?

Output:
1. Who won the ballon d'or 2013?
2. How many people had died at road accident 24-Feb-2014?

Stanford-nlp could help me, but I don't know how to use it into C#. Please help me to solve this. Thanks in advance, your help is greatly appreciated.

Posted 1-Mar-14 1:50am

sazzad37

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Solution 1

The only way to do it is to parse the data looking for specific words. There may be some libraries that you can buy to help so I would search the internet for those. Otherwise, you'll just have to keep track of a list of specific phrases you look for.

Posted 1-Mar-14 2:00am

ZurdoDev

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-01T02:01:00

Solution 2

Have a look at Sergey Tihon's work using Stanford http://sergeytihon.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/stanford-parser-is-available-on-nuget/[^]

Posted 1-Mar-14 2:01am

CHill60