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Extraction of temporal information from texts in Swedish

Berglund, Anders ; Johansson, Richard LU and Nugues, Pierre LU orcid (2006) LREC-2006, The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation p.259-264
Abstract
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a generic component to extract temporal information from texts in Swedish. It proceeds in two steps. The first step extracts time expressions and events, and generates a feature vector for each element it identifies. Using the vectors, the second step determines the

temporal relations, possibly none, between the extracted events and orders them in time.

We used a machine learning approach to find the relations between events. To run the learning algorithm, we collected a corpus of road accident reports from newspapers websites that we manually annotated. It enabled us to train decision trees and to evaluate the performance of the algorithm.
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information extraction, semantic analysis, temporal relations, Natural language processing
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Proceedings of LREC-2006, The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
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6 pages
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LREC-2006, The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
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2006-05-24 - 2006-05-26
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  • scopus:85039905340
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English
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420cbd96-d0df-488d-b59d-cb7c17d240ab (old id 630377)
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http://www.cs.lth.se/~pierre/Articles/lrec2006/lrec2006_time.pdf
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  abstract     = {{This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a generic component to extract temporal information from texts in Swedish. It proceeds in two steps. The first step extracts time expressions and events, and generates a feature vector for each element it identifies. Using the vectors, the second step determines the<br/><br>
temporal relations, possibly none, between the extracted events and orders them in time.<br/><br>
We used a machine learning approach to find the relations between events. To run the learning algorithm, we collected a corpus of road accident reports from newspapers websites that we manually annotated. It enabled us to train decision trees and to evaluate the performance of the algorithm.}},
  author       = {{Berglund, Anders and Johansson, Richard and Nugues, Pierre}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of LREC-2006, The fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation}},
  keywords     = {{information extraction; semantic analysis; temporal relations; Natural language processing}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{259--264}},
  title        = {{Extraction of temporal information from texts in Swedish}},
  url          = {{http://www.cs.lth.se/~pierre/Articles/lrec2006/lrec2006_time.pdf}},
  year         = {{2006}},
}