Improve date filter regexes to extract structured, natural, partial dates

- Much faster than using dateparser
  - It took 2x-4x for improved regex to extracts 1-15% more dates
  - Whereas It took 33x to 100x for dateparser to extract 65% - 400% more dates
  - Improve date extractor tests to test deduping dates, natural,
    structured date extraction from content

- Extract some natural, partial dates and more structured dates
  Using regex is much faster than using dateparser. It's a little
  crude but should pay off in performance.

  Supports dates of form:
  - (Day-of-Month) Month|AbbreviatedMonth Year|2DigitYear
  - Month|AbbreviatedMonth (Day-of-Month) Year|2DigitYear
This commit is contained in:
Debanjum Singh Solanky 2024-03-29 18:22:41 +05:30
parent 104eeea274
commit 7923903d21
2 changed files with 128 additions and 39 deletions

View file

@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
import calendar
import logging
import re
from collections import defaultdict
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from math import inf
from typing import List
from typing import List, Tuple
import dateparser as dtparse
from dateparser.search import search_dates
@ -23,48 +24,82 @@ class DateFilter(BaseFilter):
# - dt>="last week"
# - dt:"2 years ago"
date_regex = r"dt([:><=]{1,2})[\"'](.*?)[\"']"
raw_date_regex = r"\d{4}[-/]\d{2}[-/]\d{2}"
def __init__(self, entry_key="compiled"):
self.entry_key = entry_key
self.date_to_entry_ids = defaultdict(set)
self.cache = LRU()
self.dtparser_regexes = self.compile_date_regexes()
self.dtparser_ordinal_suffixes = re.compile(r"(st|nd|rd|th)")
self.dtparser_settings = {
"PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH": "first",
"DATE_ORDER": "YMD", # Prefer YMD and DMY over MDY when parsing ambiguous dates
}
def extract_dates(self, content):
"Extract all natural and structured dates across formats and locales from content"
excluded_parsers = ["relative-time"]
dtparser_settings = merge_dicts(
{
# Exclude relative dates for date extraction from content as very ambiguous
"PARSERS": [parser for parser in default_parsers if parser not in excluded_parsers],
"RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE": False,
},
self.dtparser_settings,
)
try:
valid_dates = [
dt_item[1] for dt_item in search_dates(content, settings=dtparser_settings, languages=["en"]) or []
]
return valid_dates
except Exception as e:
logger.warning(
f"Failed to extract natural dates from content with error: {e}. Fallback to regex based extraction."
)
def compile_date_regexes(self):
months = calendar.month_name[1:]
abbr_months = calendar.month_abbr[1:]
# Extract natural dates from content like 1st April 1984, 31 April 84, Apr 4th 1984, 13 Apr 84
dBY_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (?:" + "|".join(months) + r") \d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
dBy_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (?:" + "|".join(months) + r") \d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
BdY_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(months) + r") \d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? \d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
Bdy_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(months) + r") \d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? \d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
dbY_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (?:" + "|".join(abbr_months) + r") \d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
dby_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? (?:" + "|".join(abbr_months) + r") \d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
bdY_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(abbr_months) + r") \d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? \d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
bdy_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(abbr_months) + r") \d{1,2}(?:st|nd|rd|th)? \d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
# Extract natural of form Month, Year like January 2021, Jan 2021, Jan 21
BY_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(months) + r") \d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
By_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(months) + r") \d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
bY_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(abbr_months) + r") \d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
by_regex = re.compile(r"\b(?:" + "|".join(abbr_months) + r") \d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
# Extract structured dates from content like 1984-04-01, 1984/04/01, 01-04-1984, 01/04/1984, 01.04.1984, 01-04-84, 01/04/84
Ymd_date_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{4}[-\/]\d{2}[-\/]\d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
dmY_date_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{2}[-\/]\d{2}[-\/]\d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
dmy_date_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{2}[-\/]\d{2}[-\/]\d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
dmY_dot_date_regex = re.compile(r"\b\d{2}[\.]\d{2}[\.]\d{4}\b", re.IGNORECASE)
# Fallback to extracting YYYY-MM-DD format dates from content
pattern_matched_dates = re.findall(self.raw_date_regex, content)
valid_dates = []
for date_str in pattern_matched_dates:
# Combine date formatter and date identifier regex pairs
dtparser_regexes: List[Tuple[str, re.Pattern[str]]] = [
# Structured dates
("%Y-%m-%d", Ymd_date_regex),
("%Y/%m/%d", Ymd_date_regex),
("%d-%m-%Y", dmY_date_regex),
("%d/%m/%Y", dmY_date_regex),
("%d.%m.%Y", dmY_dot_date_regex),
("%d-%m-%y", dmy_date_regex),
("%d/%m/%y", dmy_date_regex),
# Natural dates
("%d %B %Y", dBY_regex),
("%d %B %y", dBy_regex),
("%B %d %Y", BdY_regex),
("%B %d %y", Bdy_regex),
("%d %b %Y", dbY_regex),
("%d %b %y", dby_regex),
("%b %d %Y", bdY_regex),
("%b %d %y", bdy_regex),
# Partial natural dates
("%B %Y", BY_regex),
("%B %y", By_regex),
("%b %Y", bY_regex),
("%b %y", by_regex),
]
return dtparser_regexes
def extract_dates(self, content):
"Extract natural and structured dates from content"
valid_dates = set()
for date_format, date_regex in self.dtparser_regexes:
matched_dates = date_regex.findall(content)
for date_str in matched_dates:
# Remove ordinal suffixes to parse date
date_str = self.dtparser_ordinal_suffixes.sub("", date_str)
try:
valid_dates.append(datetime.strptime(date_str, "%Y-%m-%d"))
valid_dates.add(datetime.strptime(date_str, date_format))
except ValueError:
continue
return valid_dates
return list(valid_dates)
def get_filter_terms(self, query: str) -> List[str]:
"Get all filter terms in query"

View file

@ -147,16 +147,70 @@ def test_date_extraction():
assert extracted_dates == [], "Expected relative date to be ignored"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head CREATED: today SCHEDULED: 1984-04-01 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected only YMD structured date to be extracted"
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected only Y-m-d structured date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head CREATED: today SCHEDULED: 01-04-1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected DMY structured date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head SCHEDULED: 01-04-1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected d-m-Y structured date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head Updates from April 1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected natural date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head CREATED: today SCHEDULED: 1984/04/01 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected only Y/m/d structured date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("CLOCK: [1984-04-01 mer 09:50]--[1984-04-01 mer 10:10] => 24:20")
expected_dates = [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 9, 50, 0), datetime(1984, 4, 1, 10, 10, 0)]
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head SCHEDULED: 01/04/1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected d/m/Y structured date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head DEADLINE: 01.04.1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected d.m.Y structured date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("CLOCK: [1984-04-01 Sun 09:50]--[1984-04-01 Sun 10:10] => 24:20")
assert extracted_dates == [
datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)
], "Expected single deduplicated date extracted from logbook entry"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("CLOCK: [1984/03/31 mer 09:50]--[1984/04/01 mer 10:10] => 24:20")
expected_dates = [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0), datetime(1984, 3, 31, 0, 0, 0)]
assert all(
[dt in extracted_dates for dt in expected_dates]
), "Expected multiple non-english dates extracted from logbook entry"
), "Expected multiple different dates extracted from logbook entry"
def test_natual_date_extraction():
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 1 April 1984 tail")
assert datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates, "Expected natural date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 1st April 1984 tail")
assert datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates, "Expected natural date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 2nd Apr 1984 tail")
assert datetime(1984, 4, 2, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates, "Expected natural date with short month to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 4th Apr 1984 tail")
assert datetime(1984, 4, 4, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates, "Expected natural date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 11th april 1984 tail")
assert (
datetime(1984, 4, 11, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates
), "Expected natural date with lowercase month to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 23rd april 84 tail")
assert datetime(1984, 4, 23, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates, "Expected natural date with 2-digit year to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head 31st march 84 tail")
assert datetime(1984, 3, 31, 0, 0, 0) in extracted_dates, "Expected natural date with 2-digit year to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head April 1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)], "Expected partial natural date to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head Apr 1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [
datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)
], "Expected partial natural date with short month to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head apr 1984 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [
datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)
], "Expected partial natural date with lowercase month to be extracted"
extracted_dates = DateFilter().extract_dates("head apr 84 tail")
assert extracted_dates == [
datetime(1984, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0)
], "Expected partial natural date with 2-digit year to be extracted"