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DurationParser: don't strip non-Latin unit words before the config lookup - #857

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Problem

The default branch of DurationParser.parse() matches a value+unit pair with TimeValueUnitRegex, then cleans the captured unit text before looking it up in DurationParserConfig.timesMap:

val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"a-zA-Z]""", "")).getOrElse(return None)  // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches

The replacement only keeps ', " and ASCII a-zA-Z, so a unit word in any non-Latin alphabet (Greek, Cyrillic, etc.) is stripped down to an empty string before the lookup, even though the exact word is listed in timesMap for that language. timeUnits.get("") then misses and the whole parse returns None -- durations expressed in those languages never parse, regardless of how complete their config entry is. Reproduced with the Greek example from the issue: parse("el", "Time", "context 4 ώρες") returns None even though "ώρες" -> "hour" is in DurationParserConfig.timesMap("el").

Fix

Replaced a-zA-Z with \p{L} (any Unicode letter), which keeps the original intent -- stripping the stray punctuation this cleanup exists for, like the trailing ) in (11 min) -- while no longer discarding letters outside ASCII.

Verified with a standalone build of the exact replaceAll call: the reported Greek example's captured unit text (ώρες) is wiped to "" by the old pattern and preserved by the new one, and the existing ASCII case this cleanup was written for ("min)" -> "min") is unaffected. Added the issue's own suggested test case to DurationParserTest.scala.

Fixes #760

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Duration parsing now recognizes units written with non-Latin letters, including Greek, while continuing to reject unrecognized units.

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The default branch of parse() matches a value+unit pair with
TimeValueUnitRegex, then cleans the captured unit text before looking
it up in DurationParserConfig.timesMap:

    m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^'\"a-zA-Z]""", "")

The replacement only keeps '"' and ASCII a-zA-Z, so a unit word in any
non-Latin alphabet (Greek, Cyrillic, etc.) is stripped down to an empty
string before the lookup, even though the exact word is listed in
timesMap for that language. timeUnits.get("") then misses and the
whole parse returns None -- durations expressed in those languages
never parse, regardless of how complete their config entry is.

Replaced a-zA-Z with \p{L} (any Unicode letter), which keeps the
original intent -- stripping the stray punctuation this cleanup exists
for, like the trailing ')' in '(11 min)' -- while no longer discarding
letters outside ASCII.

Verified with a standalone build of the exact replaceAll call: the
reported Greek example ('context 4 ώρες', unit text 'ώρες') is wiped
to "" by the old pattern and preserved by the new one, and the
existing ASCII case this cleanup was written for ('min)' -> 'min')
is unaffected.

Fixes dbpedia#760
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Duration unit cleanup now preserves Unicode letters, allowing configured non-Latin unit names to remain available for lookup. A test checks that the Greek phrase "context 4 ώρες" parses as 14,400 seconds.

Changes: Duration Unit Parsing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Preserve Unicode duration units
core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/dataparser/DurationParser.scala, core/src/test/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/dataparser/DurationParserTest.scala
Unit-name cleanup now retains Unicode letters while preserving apostrophes and quotation marks. A test checks that "context 4 ώρες" parses as 14,400 seconds.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: ninniuz, meti-adane

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c151d

The tested Greek duration parses, but configured Hindi units such as मिनट still fail lookup. This is a limited gap in non-Latin duration parsing; preserving marks would address it.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving non-Latin duration unit words before configuration lookup.
Linked Issues check Passed The PR addresses #760. DurationParser.scala changes the cleanup pattern from ASCII-only a-zA-Z to Unicode \\p{L} while preserving apostrophes and quotation marks. This keeps Greek unit text such …
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes are limited to the duration-unit cleanup required by #760 and a focused regression test for the reported Greek case. No unrelated implementation or test changes are present in the reviewed…
Docstring Coverage Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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The PR addresses #760. DurationParser.scala changes the cleanup pattern from ASCII-only a-zA-Z to Unicode \p{L} while preserving apostrophes and quotation marks. This keeps Greek unit text such as ώρες available for the configured lookup and still removes punctuation such as min). DurationParserTest.scala adds the requested parse("el", "Time", "context 4 ώρες") expectation of 14400.0.

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The changes are limited to the duration-unit cleanup required by #760 and a focused regression test for the reported Greek case. No unrelated implementation or test changes are present in the reviewed diff.

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// Seconds and minutes could be indicated as ','',"
val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"a-zA-Z]""", "")).getOrElse(return None) // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches
val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"\p{L}]""", "")).getOrElse(return None) // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches; \p{L} (not a-zA-Z) so non-Latin unit words (e.g. Greek "ώρες") survive this strip

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve combining marks in configured unit names.

DurationParser builds its lookup from configured keys, so मिनट can reach this code. The cleanup keeps \p{L} but removes the Hindi combining vowel mark (\p{M}), changing the captured key before exact lookup. The lookup then returns None, so this configured non-Latin unit still fails to parse. Preserve Unicode marks at this boundary:

Suggested fix
--- "a/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/dataparser/DurationParser.scala"
+++ "b/core/src/main/scala/org/dbpedia/extraction/dataparser/DurationParser.scala"
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
                 val durationsMap = TimeValueUnitRegex.findAllIn(input).matchData.map{ m =>
                 {
                     // Seconds and minutes could be indicated as ','',"
-                    val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"\p{L}]""", "")).getOrElse(return None)  // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches; \p{L} (not a-zA-Z) so non-Latin unit words (e.g. Greek "ώρες") survive this strip
+                    val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"\p{L}\p{M}]""", "")).getOrElse(return None)  // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches; preserve Unicode letters and marks
                     val num = getNum(m).getOrElse(return None)
                     (unit, num) }
                 }.toMap
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val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"\p{L}]""", "")).getOrElse(return None) // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches; \p{L} (not a-zA-Z) so non-Latin unit words (e.g. Greek "ώρες") survive this strip
val unit = timeUnits.get(m.subgroups(1).replaceAll("""[^\'\"\p{L}\p{M}]""", "")).getOrElse(return None) // hack to deal with e.g "min)" matches; preserve Unicode letters and marks
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Update the captured-unit cleanup in DurationParser so it preserves Unicode
combining marks alongside letters before looking up the key in timeUnits. Keep
the existing removal of other characters and exact lookup behavior unchanged.

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Duration parser in DIEF fails for words written in non latin alphabets.

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