Hi Dimitrios, Thanks for your interest in contributing. All of the components you mention are part of Apache Commons, which has a single dev list. You should post your query there.
To subscribe to that list, click the subscribe link in this page: https://commons.apache.org/mail-lists.html You should also subscribe to the user list linked there. Welcome to Commons! Phil On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 2:44 PM Dimitrios Efthymiou < efthymiou.dimitri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone. I have a PR (which is currently in commons-math) > that has a method that takes a string and extracts whatever numbers > it finds inside it. > https://github.com/apache/commons-math/pull/233 > There is a disagreement regarding the project that should take > ownership of such a method. To which project does this method belong: > LANG, MATH or TEXT and in which class? > As for the usefulness of this method, there are a few scenarios: > 1--This could be particularly useful for data mining or information > extraction where you are dealing with unstructured text. It could be a part > of a larger Natural Language Processing (NLP) or text analysis tool where > numeric information needs to be analyzed separately. > 2--If you're parsing contact information and want to separate phone numbers > or other numeric information from a larger string. > 3--If you are working with log files, XML or JSON data, and you need to > extract certain numeric values that are embedded within text. > 4--If the dates or times are in a specific format embedded in text, the > method can be used to extract the relevant parts. > 5--If you're scraping data from websites, it's often the case that useful > numeric data like prices, dates, and identifiers are mixed in with other > text. > 6--if you want to extract all the numbers and perform mathematical > operations such as sum, average etc. > 7--For analyzing textual data for occurrences of numbers or patterns > involving numbers. > 8--In chatbots, virtual assistants, or any other AI that interprets human > language, to identify and process numbers mentioned in the user's input. > > Thank you all for your time and help >
