A transformation-based error-driven learning approach for Chinese temporal information extraction

Abstract

Temporal information processing plays an important role in many application areas such as information retrieval, question answering, machine translation, and text summarization. This paper proposes a transformation-based error-driven learning approach to extracting temporal expressions from Chinese unstructured texts. The temporal expression annotator used in the approach is developed based on a Chinese time ontology, which includes concepts of temporal expressions and their taxonomical relations. Experiments in three domains show that our algorithm obtained promising results. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.