Does anyone know of software or methodology for compredending natural language? I know it's one of those things that computers can't do really well, but if the subject is limited it can't be too hard. In this case the language is English and the subject is time.

It would be easy to search for strings that I know, however I might miss one:

  • "... 10 past ..." always refers to minutes
  • "on 9 11" is a date whereas "at 9 11" is a time

    There'd be hundreds I guess, including the easier and more obvious ones:

  • ".. it was ten past five in the afternoon."

    Does anyone know of anything for doing this?

    In reply to Natural language text processing by BigLug

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