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v0.2.0
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:Date: November 12, 2021

Contributors
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A total of 3 people contributed to this
release. People with a '+' by their names authored a patch for the first
time.

* Mohammad Al-Fetyani
* Pain
* Saed SayedAhmed +


The patches included in this release have been reviewed by
the following contributors.

* Mohammad Al-Fetyani
* Pain
* Saed SayedAhmed

Pull requests merged
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A total of 17 pull requests were merged for this release.

Highlights
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* `#41 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/41>`__: Add the ability to parse names from text


* `#40 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/40>`__: Introduce :mod:`~.datasets` module and the first dataset, `names`, with over 40,000 unique names


New features
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* `#51 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/51>`__: Ordinal: Add support for `الحادي/ة` and `الاحدى` in ordinal tens parsing


Enhancements
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* `#53 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/53>`__: Ordinal: Changed the behavior of ordinal parsing so that the results are no longer concatenated


* `#52 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/52>`__: Duration: Improved the performance of duration parsing


* `#34 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/34>`__: Time: Add `هسا` to :data:`~.AT_THE_MOMENT` value and `هاد` to :data:`~.THIS` value


Fixed bugs
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* `#50 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/50>`__: Time: Fix incorrect fraction of time parsing


* `#39 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/39>`__: Time: Made next/previous specific month time parsing independent of current time


* `#38 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/38>`__: Time: Fixed incorrect parsing for combined full date and specific day


* `#30 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/30>`__: Fix incorrect time parsing with :data:`~.LAST_SPECIFIC_DAY_OF_SPECIFIC_MONTH`


* `#13 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/13>`__: Add the normalized text of :data:`~.LIGATURE_SALLA_KORANIC` and  :data:`~.LIGATURE_QALA`


* `#14 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/14>`__: Exclude :data:`~.ARABIC_LIGATURES` from :data:`~.EXPRESSION_EMOJIS`


Documentation-related changes
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* `#55 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/55>`__: Comparison: Maha and facebook/Duckling


Changes to our development infrastructure
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* `#35 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/35>`__: Add a deprecation system


* `#31 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/31>`__: Added workflow to automatically prepare for a new release


* `#29 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/29>`__: Fix publish to pypi GitHub workflow


* `#28 <https://github.com/TRoboto/Maha/pull/28>`__: Add script to automatically generate changelogs and update citation