Exercise: Rule-Based Matchmaking

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Problem

You are working on a project that requires you to extract all the dates mentioned in a given text. You decide to use the spaCy Matcher class to define a pattern for matching dates. The pattern should match dates in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" ("2022-02-15"). Write a Python program that does the following:

  • Defines a spaCy Matcher object and adds a pattern to it that matches dates in the format "YYYY-MM-DD."

  • Processes the text "I have a meeting on 2023-02-15 and another meeting on 2023-02-20" using the spaCy NLP pipeline.

  • Matches the defined pattern against the processed document and prints out the matched spans.

Sample Input:

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