2001 · 119 citations · 8 references
ComputingComputer ScienceComputational LinguisticsInformation RetrievalNatural Language ProcessingEvent RepresentationInformation ExtractionSyntactic AnalysisTemporal OrderingTemporal StructureTemporalityTemporal DiscourseTemporal Ordering In NarrativeTemporal Relation ExtractionTemporal Relation ProcessingTemporal Structure In Narrative
We describe a procedure for arranging into a time-line the contents of news stories describing the development of some situation. We describe the parts of the system that deal with 1. breaking sentences into event-clauses and 2. resolving both explicit and implicit temporal references. Evaluations show a performance of 52%, compared to humans.
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Robust temporal processing of news
Inderjeet Mani, George D. Wilson · 2000 · 358 citations · Full text