NER Dates

[the1gofer]

Is their an easy way to filter no date dates from the results? For example, Im getting things like "78 years", when really I'm just trying to find specific dates.

[polm]

The pretrained models don't differentiate between those kinds of dates, so filtering out the ones you want needs to be a post-processing step.

Not exactly sure what you want (is a date like "Aug 10" without a year valid? What about "July 4th"?), but a simple way to do this would be to feed the dates to a versatile date parser and discard anything that couldn't be parsed.

[the1gofer]

Do you have a suggestion for a library that might work?

[polm]

There's nothing I regularly use in Python, but it looks like dateparser has the necessary functionality. You'd need to disable its relative date parsing though.