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parsing text into a calendar event "lunch with Jane at 2pm next wednesday in the green room"
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  • Subject: parsing text into a calendar event "lunch with Jane at 2pm next wednesday in the green room"
  • From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:33:13 +0000

hi,
<calendar.google> has a nice feature of "quick add" where you can just type the event in plain text, and google figure out, roughly, what you want, create the event, and open it for editing.


I'd like to add that functionality to iCal. Is there an open source (maybe perl/ruby etc) library for parsing events into a well-formed list of event specs?

i.e. parse("lunch with Jane and Tom at 2pm next wednesday in the green room")
-->
what: "lunch"
where: "the green room"
start: 21 March 2007 14:00:00
finish: 21 March 2007 15:00:00
attendees: ("Jane", "Tom")


I have searched and can't see anything obvious that can do this, but it seems like a lot of online calendar systems might have taken a punt at this before?

tim
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