Verena Kaynig-Fittkau
2022
DocTime: A Document-level Temporal Dependency Graph Parser
Puneet Mathur
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Vlad Morariu
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Verena Kaynig-Fittkau
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Jiuxiang Gu
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Franck Dernoncourt
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Quan Tran
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Ani Nenkova
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Dinesh Manocha
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Rajiv Jain
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
We introduce DocTime - a novel temporal dependency graph (TDG) parser that takes as input a text document and produces a temporal dependency graph. It outperforms previous BERT-based solutions by a relative 4-8% on three datasets from modeling the problem as a graph network with path-prediction loss to incorporate longer range dependencies. This work also demonstrates how the TDG graph can be used to improve the downstream tasks of temporal questions answering and NLI by a relative 4-10% with a new framework that incorporates the temporal dependency graph into the self-attention layer of Transformer models (Time-transformer). Finally, we develop and evaluate on a new temporal dependency graph dataset for the domain of contractual documents, which has not been previously explored in this setting.
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