We seek to improve the robustness and portability of temporal information extraction systems by incorporating data-driven techniques. We present two sets of experiments pointing us in this direction. The first shows that machine-learning-based recognition of temporal expressions not only achieves high accuracy on its own but can also improve rule-based normalization. The second makes use of a staged normalization architecture to experiment with machine learned classifiers for certain disambiguation sub-tasks within the normalization task.
@InProceedings{ahn_et_al:DagSemProc.05151.12, author = {Ahn, David and Fissaha Adafre, Sisay and de Rijke, Maarten}, title = {{Towards Task-Based Temporal Extraction and Recognition}}, booktitle = {Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events}, pages = {1--16}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2005}, volume = {5151}, editor = {Graham Katz and James Pustejovsky and Frank Schilder}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05151.12}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-3150}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.05151.12}, annote = {Keywords: Information extraction, natural language, temporal reasoning, text mining} }
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