Temporal Information Extraction

Research on information extraction (IE) seeks to distill relational tuples from natural language text, such as the contents of the WWW. Most IE work has focussed on identifying static facts, encoding them as binary relations. This is unfortunate, because the vast majority of facts are fluents, only holding true during an interval of time. It is less helpful to extract PresidentOf(Bill-Clinton, USA) with

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Xiao Ling, Daniel S. Weld
• Keywords: AAAI 2010, Intelligent Agents, Most IE Work, Natural Language Text, Static Facts