Journal
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 269-298Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-012-9179-y
Keywords
Temporal information; Temporal tagger; Named entity recognition; Named entity normalization; TIMEX2; TIMEX3
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Extraction and normalization of temporal expressions from documents are important steps towards deep text understanding and a prerequisite for many NLP tasks such as information extraction, question answering, and document summarization. There are different ways to express (the same) temporal information in documents. However, after identifying temporal expressions, they can be normalized according to some standard format. This allows the usage of temporal information in a term- and language-independent way. In this paper, we describe the challenges of temporal tagging in different domains, give an overview of existing annotated corpora, and survey existing approaches for temporal tagging. Finally, we present our publicly available temporal tagger HeidelTime, which is easily extensible to further languages due to its strict separation of source code and language resources like patterns and rules. We present a broad evaluation on multiple languages and domains on existing corpora as well as on a newly created corpus for a language/domain combination for which no annotated corpus has been available so far.
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