Release of Recognizers-Text NPM packages v1.1.2

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text). Version 1.1.2

Changes

• Multiple bug fixes and refinements to Number and DateTime parsing;
• Multiple fixes for consistency with recognizers in .NET;
• Recognized currencies now include their ISO codes;
• Multiple improvements and extensions to recognition of relative DateTime entities;
• Support for Number, Age, and Currency recognition in Japanese;
• Extensions to French recurring Date/Time Set extraction;
• Improved Number and Time recognition in French;
• Boolean Choice recognizer now supports Chinese and Spanish;
• Improved support for SI units in Chinese;
• Improved Currency recognizer in Chinese;
• Multiple improvements to Sequence recognizer for phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, @mentions;
• New @microsoft/recognizers-text-data-types-timex-expression (no longer under @Preview).

Release of Recognizers-Text NPM packages v1.1.1

Note: Released packages unlisted due to dependency issue. Please use v1.1.2

Release of Recognizers-Text NPM packages v1.1.0

Note: Released packages unlisted due to dependency issue. Please use v1.1.2

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.1.0

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.1.0

Changes

• Fixes in Chinese Unit entity boundaries inconsistencies;
• Bug fix in parsing numbers over 70 in the French system;
• Support for French number forms used in Switzerland and Belgium;
• Cardinal numbers recognizer in Dutch;
• Age, Temperature, and Dimensions entity recognizers in Dutch;
• Extracted PhoneNumber entities are now scored based on formatting and length (scoring to be further refined);
• Support for extraction and resolution of “business days” in English DateTime;
• Support for tagging other business terms in DateTime (e.g. “business hours”, “EOD”);
• Support for “decade” as unit of 10Y in English;
• Improved support for relative DateTimes in Chinese;
• Bug fix in handling “upcoming” in relation to DateTime.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.0.11

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.0.11

Changes

• Bug fix in Number extraction in Japanese when common written form omits characters;
• Fixes in Chinese date and date period extraction and resolution;
• Cardinal numbers recognizer in Korean;
• Support for week mentions in the form “week of the 22nd”;
• Extended support for typical PhoneNumber formats in the Netherlands, Italy, and Denmark;
• Fix for inconsistent number range extraction in English;
• Improved handling of false positives in time of day mentions in greetings utterances;
• Improved handling of false positives in cases where “one” should not be treated as number;
• Bug fix in handling Time ranges combined with timezones (Preview);
• Boolean choices recognizer in Chinese;
• Improved handling of approximate modifier in DateTime;
• Support "as early/late as" as a modifier for Datetime entities;
• Bug fix in Korean fraction parser.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.0.10

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.0.10

Changes

• Fixes in Chinese date and date period extraction and resolution;
• Support for “following” as a relative term applied to datetime;
• Support for more informal ways to specify an amount of day/month/… (e.g. “next couple months”)
• Fix for inconsistent datetime period extraction in English;
• Improved combined recognition of dates and weekdays;
• Improved combined recognition of DayOfWeek + PartOfDay;
• Boolean choices recognizer in Dutch;
• Extensions to Boolean choices recognizer in English;
• Bug fix in Japanese number parser;
• Improvements to datetime extraction with timezones in English (Preview).

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.0.9

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.0.9

Changes

• Added sub-type information for numbers (e.g. integer, fraction, …), as consumers can leverage this information in post-processing;
• Extensions to Currency recognition in Japanese;
• Fixed inconsistency in dealing with date after a time period;
• Fix in DateTime extraction for ambiguous cases in Chinese;
• Extended recognition of informal mentions of years;
• Improved support for Number recognition as mixed written words and numerals in English;
• Bug fix in extracting multiple durations from the same utterance;
• Performance improvements in DateTimePeriod and base Date extraction;
• Fix encoding issues caused by UTF8+BOM;
• Added support for hyphenated “mid” prefix (e.g. “mid-November”);
• Bug fixes for timezone corner cases in English (Preview).

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.0.8.2

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.0.8.2

Changes

• Fixes to month extraction in Spanish/Portuguese;
• Improved entity merge support for date + before/after time cases in English;
• Bug fixes to entity text boundaries and validation;
• Bug fix for regression where a list of two years was treated as a range in English;
• Support for informal time mentions in datetimes like “today at 9a”;
• Bug fixes for datetime range corner cases in English and Chinese.

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.0.8

Note: Packages unlisted due to regression. Please use release v1.0.8.1

Release of Recognizers-Text Nuget packages v1.0.8.1

New release of the Recognizers-Text packages to nuget.org (https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text). Version 1.0.8.1

Changes

• Extended support for SI unit symbols in Chinese;
• Fixes to handle disjoint date ranges in English and Chinese;
• Improved support for different dash characters in ranges (U+2012 to U+2015, U+2053) ;
• Extensions in Japanese Boolean recognizer and bug fixes in Numbers;
• Bug fixes in handling combined less formal ranges + date (e.g. "between 10 and 11:30 on 1/1/2015");
• Support for extracting centuries (e.g. “21st century”) date ranges in English;
• Improved support for “more than/less than” time periods;
• Improved performance on TimeZone matcher and fixes in handling DateTime periods with timezone (Preview);
• Improved URL and Mention extractors;
• Additional holiday support in English;
• Improved support for merged DateTimeAlternatives in list + relative_week cases (e.g. “next week on tuesday or thursday” );
• Enhanced extraction of relative periods from a time point;
• Fix regression where “by year” was interpreted as current year in English;
• Fix for time wrongly tagged within zipcodes;
• Fix "DayOfWeek-Month-Date" recognized as DatePeriod;
• Refinements to year-quarter extraction;
• Fixed resolution for after-year pattern to use correct starting timepoint;
• Bug fixes for number ranges and relative dates in English and Chinese.