Natural Language date and time parser for java [closed]

I am working on a Natural Language parser which examines a sentence in english and extracts some information like name, date etc.

for example: "Lets meet next tuesday at 5 PM at the beach."

So the output will be something like : "Lets meet 15/09/2009 at 1700 hr at the beach"

So basically, what i want to know is that is there any framework or library available for JAVA to do these kind of operations like parsing dates from a sentence and give a output with some specified format.

Regards, Pranav

Thanks for the replies. I have looked on few NLPs like LingPipe, OpenPL, Stanford NLP. I wanted to ask do they hav anything for date parsing for java.

Solution 1:

Natty is a really good replacement for JChronic.

Solution 2:

You can use JChronic, the Java port of Chronic.

Solution 3:

Have you tried jchronic? However, I doubt any library could directly work with sentences: you'd have to extract sentence fragments and feeding them to a NLP date parsing framework yourself, perhaps on a trial-n-error basis (larger and larger fragments until the framework throws an error).