Python-HeidelTime

This is a python wrapper for the multilingual temporal tagger HeidelTime.

For more information about this temporal tagger, please visit : https://github.com/HeidelTime/heideltime

Heideltime needs a Part Of Speech Tagger, by default it uses TreeTagger : http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~schmid/tools/TreeTagger/. This repo includes TreeTagger scripts for Mac and Linux. Windows users will have to download the appropriate scripts from the TreeTagger home page.

Demo

1. Clone the current github repo: git clone https://github.com/amineabdaoui/python-heideltime
2. Install its requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Create a python file in the same directory with the following code:

import HeidelTime
hw = HeidelTime.HeidelTimeWrapper('english')
hw.parse('Neil Armstrong was born in 1930')

Future Work

• Encapsulate the returned tagged string in a python object
• Find a way to install the appropriate POS tagger files according to the user OS.
• Package all the necessary parts in the same python package and release it on PyPi.

Pull requests are welcome to improve this wrapper (which is in an early stage).