Temporal Information Processing of a New Language: Fast Porting with Minimal Resources

We describe the semi-automatic adaptation of a TimeML annotated corpus from English to Portuguese, a language for which TimeML annotated data was not available yet. In order to validate this adaptation, we use the obtained data to replicate some results in the literature that used the original English data. The fact that comparable results are obtained indicates that our approach can be used successfully to rapidly create semantically annotated resources for new languages.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Francisco Costa, António Branco
• Keywords: ACL 2010, Annotated, Computational Linguistics, Original English Data, Semi-automatic Adaptation