Using the nltk to recognise dates as named entities?

Question

I\'m trying to use the NLTK Named Entity Tagger to identify various named entities. In the book Natural Language Processing with Python they provide a list of commonly

Answer 1

You should check out the contrib repository of NLTK - contains a module called timex.py or download it here: https://github.com/nltk/nltk_contrib/blob/master/nltk_contrib/timex.py

From the first line of the module:

# Code for tagging temporal expressions in text