Time Period Identification of Events in Text

This study aims at identifying when an event written in text occurs. In particular, we classify a sentence for an event into four time-slots; morning, daytime, evening, and night. To realize our goal, we focus on expressions associated with time-slot (time-associated words). However, listing up all the time-associated words is impractical, because there are numerous time-associated expressions. We therefore use a semi-supervised learning method, the Na

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Taichi Noro, Takashi Inui, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
• Keywords: ACL 2006, ACL 2007, Naive Bayes Classifier, Numerous Time-associated Expressions, Time-associated Words