Temporal Information Extraction by Predicting Relative Time-lines

Artuur Leeuwenberg, Marie-Francine Moens


Abstract
The current leading paradigm for temporal information extraction from text consists of three phases: (1) recognition of events and temporal expressions, (2) recognition of temporal relations among them, and (3) time-line construction from the temporal relations. In contrast to the first two phases, the last phase, time-line construction, received little attention and is the focus of this work. In this paper, we propose a new method to construct a linear time-line from a set of (extracted) temporal relations. But more importantly, we propose a novel paradigm in which we directly predict start and end-points for events from the text, constituting a time-line without going through the intermediate step of prediction of temporal relations as in earlier work. Within this paradigm, we propose two models that predict in linear complexity, and a new training loss using TimeML-style annotations, yielding promising results.
Anthology ID:
D18-1155
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
October-November
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1237–1246
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D18-1155
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1155
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Cite (ACL):
Artuur Leeuwenberg and Marie-Francine Moens. 2018. Temporal Information Extraction by Predicting Relative Time-lines. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1237–1246, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Temporal Information Extraction by Predicting Relative Time-lines (Leeuwenberg & Moens, EMNLP 2018)
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Code
 tuur/PredRelTimelines