An Intermediate Representation for the Interpretation of Temporal Expressions

The interpretation of temporal expressions in text is an important constituent task for many practical natural language processing tasks, including question-answering, information extraction and text summarisation. Although temporal expressions have long been studied in the research literature, it is only more recently, with the impetus provided by exercises like the ACE Program, that attention has been directed to broad-coverage, implemented systems. In this paper, we describe our approach to intermediate semantic representations in the interpretation of temporal expressions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Pawel P. Mazur, Robert Dale
• Keywords: ACL 2006, ACL 2007, Important Constituent Task, Language Processing Tasks, Temporal Expressions