Date Extraction from Text

Question

I am trying to use Stanford NLP tool to extract dates ( 8/11/2012 ) form text.

Here\'s a link! for the demo of this tool

Can u help me in how to train the c

Answer 1

in the sutime/english.sutime.txt line 319, there are few patterns for US tagging:

{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /yyyy-?MM-?dd-?'T'HH(:?mm(:?ss([.,]S{1,3})?)?)?(Z)?/ } 
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /yyyy-MM-dd/ }  
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /'T'HH(:?mm(:?ss(.,)?)?)?(Z)?/ } 
// Tokenizer "sometimes adds extra slash  
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /yyyy\?/MM\?/dd/ }  
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /MM?\?/dd?\?/(yyyy|yy)/ } 
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /MM?-dd?-(yyyy|yy)/ } 
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /HH?:mm(:ss)?/ }
{ ruleType: "time", pattern: /yyyy-MM/ }

just need to add few ruleTypes, to get it the needed order