Title
Multilingual and cross-domain temporal tagging.
Abstract
Extraction and normalization of temporal expressions from documents are important steps towards deep text understanding and a prerequisite for many NLP tasks such as information extraction, question answering, and document summarization. There are different ways to express (the same) temporal information in documents. However, after identifying temporal expressions, they can be normalized according to some standard format. This allows the usage of temporal information in a term- and language-independent way. In this paper, we describe the challenges of temporal tagging in different domains, give an overview of existing annotated corpora, and survey existing approaches for temporal tagging. Finally, we present our publicly available temporal tagger HeidelTime, which is easily extensible to further languages due to its strict separation of source code and language resources like patterns and rules. We present a broad evaluation on multiple languages and domains on existing corpora as well as on a newly created corpus for a language/domain combination for which no annotated corpus has been available so far.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s10579-012-9179-y
Language Resources and Evaluation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Temporal information,Temporal tagger,Named entity recognition,Named entity normalization,TIMEX2,TIMEX3
Journal
47
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1574-020X
74
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.75
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jannik Strötgen149238.20
Michael Gertz232527.07