[uf-new] hAudio Issue Duration

[Martin McEvoy]

Hello Brian

Brian Suda wrote:
> 2008/8/4, Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk>:
>   
>>  There are (in my view) only three real ways to resolve this issue
>>  ...
>>  3 Support NLP  (Natural Language Processing)  <span class="duration">3
>> minutes 23 seconds</span>.
>>
>>  I personally am in favour of number 3 as I believe it is not too difficult
>> to build a parser that will process just durations (hours minutes  seconds)
>> as long as there is an agreed format.
>>     
>
> --- any sort of NLP is much harder than you think!  If we are back to
> codifying something, either we build it in english (which people would
> disagree with) or having an list of all known way to spell, decline
> and abbreviate hours in all known human languages. Is is very much a
> boiling the oceans solution.
>
> -brian
>
>   
I disagree (slightly) consider this

    <span class="duration">1 hour 3 minutes 23 seconds</span>

or this

    <span class="duration">1 heures 3 minutes 23 secondes</span>


The parser already knows that this is a duration and the contents are a 
Numerical value and thus text  (words) are striped as they are nothing 
to do with the value, they are only there for a human to understand 
would leave us with...

<span class="duration">1  3 23</span>

as long as we we know what format this is supposed to represent , the 
first number is an hour, the second minutes, and third seconds and this 
is documented as a decided format then it would be fairly straight 
forward after that to output any format you like.

Thanks


Martin McEvoy