Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures

Vered Shwartz


Abstract
We propose the task of culture-specific time expression grounding, i.e. mapping from expressions such as “morning” in English or “Manhã” in Portuguese to specific hours in the day. We propose 3 language-agnostic methods, one of which achieves promising results on gold standard annotations that we collected for a small number of languages. We then apply this method to 27 languages and analyze the similarities across languages in the grounding of time expressions.
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2022.findings-acl.224
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
Month:
May
Year:
2022
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Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2842–2853
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.224
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.224
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Vered Shwartz. 2022. Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 2842–2853, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures (Shwartz, Findings 2022)
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 vered1986/time_expressions