Google Calendar

I went ahead and tested Google Calendar (finally, it came up) against the free text input I threw at SpongeCell:

• Visiting Granny at 12 on March 1st: passed - SpongCell passed.
• Flying to Cambridge on the 2nd then back on the 4th: failed - SpongCell passed.
• Flying to Boston tomorrow: passed - SpongeCell passed.
• Flying to Boston in a week: failed - SpongeCell failed.
• Flying to Boston on Thursday: passed - SpongeCell passed.
• Flying to Boston a week on Thursday: passed - SpongeCell failed.
• Flying to Boston on the 30th of Feb: same as SpongeCell - placed as 2nd March.

Overall, it seems that SpongeCell is ahead of Google in terms of NL interfaces. It will be interesting to revisit these sites in a while with a new set of tests to see how they have improved.

Comments

[Marc Guldimann]

Thanks for taking another look at our NLP. I tried "flying to boston in a week" and the SpongeBar worked for me. What type of appointment did it create for you?

Also, a couple of new things you can try:

"fly to boston every other friday"
"remind me via sms to walk the dog tomorrow night"

[Matthew Hurst]

Marc,

Originally 'flying to boston in a week' didn't work (my original post on SpongeCell reports the results). I haven't actually gone back and retested this. I hope to do more testing comparing SpongeCell and GC pretty soon.

The two extra examples you provide seem very powerful.