Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.7.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.7.0

The project has reached over 2.5M package downloads on NuGet/npm/PyPI!

Changes

• Bug fix for incorrect parsing in weekday-date formats in German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian DateTime;
• Support for NumberRange in French and German languages;
• Improved support for colloquial Date mentions in Portuguese and Spanish;
• Support for early/late modifiers in German DatePeriod;
• Bug fix in assigning subtype for Number with multipliers (e.g., "1.2b");
• Bug fix for "à midi" not always correctly recognized as Time;
• Bug fix for time-of-day entities recognized, but not resolved correctly in Spanish and Portuguese TimePeriod;
• Extended support for Duration terms in English, Portuguese, and Spanish;
• Extended support for expressions indicating the present moment in English DateTime;
• Improved handling of cultures that use multiple Number formats/separators;
• Improved support for merging date/time/timezone terms within brackets in DateTime;
• Improved support for French relative Time mentions;
• Added support for compound Currency entities in Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and Italian;
• Support for hyphen-connected Unit expressions in German;
• German Holiday recognition coverage improvements;
• QuotedText recognition integration into Sequence recognizers;
• Fixed inconsistency between French and English DateTime entities with article connectors;
• Korean support for Currency and Temperature units (extraction-only);
• Partial Korean support for Dimension units (extraction-only);
• Support Timezone resolution for time-of-day + time patterns (in Preview);
• Timezone resolution fixes for US informal timezone names (Preview);
• Bug fix for over parsing in combining date and time with timezone in English DateTime;
• Improved resolution of 2-digit year mentions in DatePeriod;
• Bug fix in Arabic Number recognizer to handle other culture-specific Unicode number separators;
• Holiday parser refinements in Japanese.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.6.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.6.0

Changes

• Extended support for date + time forms in Portuguese DateTime;
• Extended support for unambiguous date formats in DateTime;
• Add support for emoji skin tone modifiers across cultures in Choice recognizer;
• Add support to handle common mispelt ordinals in English Date;
• Additional support for non-standard speed units in English NumberWithUnit;
• Support for bitcoin and its Unicode symbol as Currency;
• Splitting clustered units into their separate Unit entries in English;
• Bug fix resolving time-of-day modifiers in DateTime in French and Spanish;
• Support for million/billion/trillion Number abbreviations in English Number;
• Bug fix for false positive hours incorrectly extracted from float number in DateTime;
• Improved performance in recognizing long Number forms in Japanese;
• Bug fix in resolution for "anoche" in Spanish DateTime;
• Improved support for merged timex of duration/datetimerange (e.g., "PT1H30M") processing in TimexLib;
• Bug fix to leap year resolution and output format for invalid dates like "2/29/2019" in DateTime;
• Bug fix in numbered week resolution (e.g., 2021-W02) in TimexLib;
• Bug fix in Timex parsing across different cultures in TimexLib resolver.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.5.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.5.0

The project has reached over 2M package downloads on NuGet/npm/PyPI!

Changes

• Expanded coverage for DateTime mention formats across sub-types in Spanish;
• Bug fix in Spanish NumberRange when multiple non-mergeable sub-ranges are present in input;
• Bug fix in inconsitent normalization of Spanish Date ranges;
• Bug fix in resolution for years spelled as words in English DateTime;
• Bug fix in normalization and resolution of relative year mentions in German DateTime;
• Bug fix for regression in Chinese DateTime handling "western formats";
• Improvements support for relative DateTime expressions like "el año anterior" in Spanish;
• Support for relative Holiday calculations in DateTime;
• Revised support for Date ranges in Spanish (cleanup and new forms);
• Revised support for large numbers and informal forms in Chinese;
• Support for composite durations in Chinese DateTime;
• Fix for overly aggressive entity merging in Spanish DateTime;
• Improved handling of fractions and percentages in Chinese;
• Improved handling of potentially ambiguous terms in Chinese Number and Dimension;
• Support for Unicode vulgar fractions in .NET across western languages;
• Bug fix for entity boundary issue in English recurrent dates (Set);
• Bug fix in support for superscript 'a' and 'o' in Spanish Ordinal;
• Support for informal abbreviations and prefixes in English Age;
• Currency support in Swedish;
• Performance improvements in Swedish Number;
• Support for Chinese dynasties as Date ranges/periods;
• Bug fix in Chinese DateTime support for year ranges and decades;
• Expanded coverage for Date expressions in French (ongoing).

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.4.2

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.4.2

Changes

• Support for Age, Temperature, and Dimension units in Swedish;
• Improvements to handling informal DateTime ranges and Duration in French;
• Improved recognition of relative ranges and periods in Spanish DateTime;
• Support for DateTime entity mentions in the form "[n] [date-unit] from [datetime]";
• Bug fix in handling Currency ISO codes before monetary amounts;
• Improved parsing of fractions (including textual and unicode fractions) in Number recognizer;
• Exposed sub-type information in extracted Dimension unit entities (weight, speed, etc.);
• Bug fix handling recurring times (Set) referencing weekends in English;
• Bug fix parsing entities in sentences with multiple DateTime ranges mentions in English;
• Implemented handling of fractional Number term in German;
• Improved support for fractional Number in English;
• Implemented merging of compound Unit entities;
• Improved handling of "start/end of" in DateTime ranges in English and Spanish;
• Support for terms like "work day" and "work week" in German DateTime;
• Bug fix for null resolutions during processing of certain Date ranges in Spanish;
• Bug fixes in handling "quarter", "around", "now", "weekend", and abbreviated months in Spanish DateTime;
• Bug fix handling whitespace as Date separator in French;
• Refined coverage for modifiers (early/earlier/late/later, next/past) in Spanish DateTime;
• Bug fix handling lists of years in DateTime;
• Bug fix in disambiguating "morning"/"tomorrow" in German DateTime;
• Bug fix for Set and Time entities being incorrectly mixed during recognition in German;
• Bug fix for Holiday + Time not properly extracted and parsed in German;
• Expanded coverage for Time range and time-of-day expressions in German;
• Bug fix in parsing complex DateTime ranges in Spanish and English (e.g., "since A and not after B");
• Improved handling of "more than" Number ranges in Chinese;
• Support for "万" as multiplier in Chinese Number;
• Bug fix handling suffix for "half" in Chinese Number.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.4.1

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.4.1

Changes

• The recognizers are now .NET Core 3.1 compatible;
• Improved support for relative Date Range in German;
• Improved extraction coverage in Arabic Numbers;
• Fix compound disjoint Number Range extraction bug in English and Spanish;
• Hindi DateTime improvements with focus on ranges/periods;
• Support for "fiscal year" in Spanish DateTime;
• Resolution improvements for year Date Range in Spanish;
• Better support for relative Holiday mentions;
• Improved Holiday support for Dutch (coverage and fixes);
• Support for part-of Date Range mentions (e.g., "by the end of this month") in English;
• Support for "to/till date" as Date Range in English;
• Bug fix in Chinese Currency parsing;
• Extended Dutch Currency support;
• Improved support for Numbers like "dozen" in French;
• Bug fix in initialization of URL recognizer when no culture is specified;
• Add strict/relaxed match and validation to E-mail recognition;
• Bug fix were elided Numbers were wrongly extracted in Italian.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.4.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.4.0

In June/2020 the project has reached 1.25M package downloads across platforms!

Changes

• Improved recognition of Japanese Number (Cardinal), Ordinal, and Percentage;
• Improved recognition of Dutch Number (Cardinal) and Ordinal;
• Support for NumberRange in Dutch and Hindi;
• Multiple improvements to Spanish NumberRange;
• Support for the Indian numbering system in English Number;
• Improved handling of relative modifiers in German DateTime;
• Recognition of dialectal Time expressions in German;
• Support for informal Time mentions in Portuguese;
• Multiple refinements in DateTimeRange resolution using boundary context;
• Support for anchored day of week in parsing relative week entities;
• Improved recognition of Hindi Time, TimeRange, and Duration;
• Improved handling of variants and gender in French Number;
• Bug fix for weekday timexes in Portuguese DateTime;
• Bug fix in German DateTime to properly handle merging weekday + time_of_day;
• Improved parsing of fully written Dateentities in Spanish and Portuguese;
• Bug fix in Duration in Spanish and Portuguese;
• Improvements to false positive extractions of *Ranges from phone numbers;
• Improvements to false positive extractions of Unit and Time in Chinese and Japanese;
• Fix in TimexRangeResolver to handle times with date constraints;
• Improved handling of UTC reference times in TimexRangeResolver;
• Improvements to handle Number false positives in Chinese;
• Bug fix for parsing month + two-digit year in Portuguese, Spanish, and French DateTime;
• Support for part of day in French DateTime;
• Extensions to TimeZone handling of European forms and extra non-standard timezone names (in Preview);
• Improved handling of modifiers like "end/beginning/middle" in year ranges;
• Extended support for multipliers in handling Number/NumberRanges (e.g., "5k-20k", "20MM");
• Improved handling of month and day of week abbreviations in French Date/DateRange;
• Improved recognition of Phonenumber corner cases;
• Support for approximate DateTime in Spanish;
• Support for "night" and "weekend" ranges in English DateRange;
• Extension in Hindi Holiday to recognize additional lunar holidays;
• Holiday fixes/extensions for Easter, Worker's/May day, Juneteenth, etc. resolution;
• Bug fix in Portuguese parser for relative past Time;
• Improved support for PRESENT_REF entities in German DateTime;
• Fix to reduce false positives in French Unit;
• Bug fix in French handling of "summer" in DateRange;
• Support for multipliers/dividers in English Set;
• Support for "weekdays" in English DateRange and Set;
• Support for "business hours" in Spanish TimeRange;
• Improvements to Hindi Set support;
• Support for NumberRange in Japanese - Extraction-only;
• Support for Number (Cardinal), Ordinal, Percentage, and NumberRange in Arabic - Extraction-only;
• Support for Ordinal, Percentage, and NumberRange in Korean - Extraction-only.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.3.2

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.3.2

Changes

• Support for DateTime recognizers in Hindi;
• Multiple refinements in Spanish and Portuguese DateTimeRange resolution;
• Extension in Chinese to handle extra relative DateTimeRange scenarios and "≤" and "≥" unicode chars;
• Bug fix in French causing false positives in Date extraction;
• Bug fix in French causing incorrect span calculation for some extracted DateRange entities;
• Text library now offers methods to convert span indexing between 'char-based' and 'text-element-based';
• Extension in English DateTime to account for new non-standard written date forms.

Release of Recognizers-Text NPM packages v1.3.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text). Version 1.3.0

Major update to bring it closer to parity with .NET/NuGet.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.3.1

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text).

Retracted due to incorrect nuget package dependency reference, please use packages version 1.3.2.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.3.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.3.0

Changes

• Support for Cardinal, Ordinal, Percent recognizers in Hindi;
• Support for Age, Temperature, Dimension, Currency in Hindi;
• Support for Choice recognizers in Turkish and Hindi;
• Support for NumberRange recognizer in Turkish;
• Multiple refinements to Turkish DateTime support across sub-types;
• Improvements to German DateTime support for colloquial scenarios;
• Bug fix in Spanish DateRange support for cases that cross year boundaries;
• Bug fix in DateTime to avoid cases where time expression loses generality;
• Extension to English recurring Set for scenarios like "every other ", "quarterly";
• Extension to English to handle informal TimeRange and "week" mentions;
• Extensions and bug fix in Ordinal recognition in Chinese;
• Refinements to Currency parsing;
• Improvement to time expression library for week-in-month scenarios;
• Bug fix in DatePeriod extraction;
• Multiple performance (latency) improvements;
• Removal of support for .NET 4.5 and 4.5.2.