GATE-Time: Extraction of Temporal Expressions and Events
Leon Derczynski, Jannik Strötgen, Diana Maynard, Mark A. Greenwood, Manuel Jung
Abstract
GATE is a widely used open-source solution for text processing with a large user community. It contains components for several natural language processing tasks. However, temporal information extraction functionality within GATE has been rather limited so far, despite being a prerequisite for many application scenarios in the areas of natural language processing and information retrieval. This paper presents an integrated approach to temporal information processing. We take state-of-the-art tools in temporal expression and event recognition and bring them together to form an openly-available resource within the GATE infrastructure. GATE-Time provides annotation in the form of TimeML events and temporal expressions complying with this mature ISO standard for temporal semantic annotation of documents. Major advantages of GATE-Time are (i) that it relies on HeidelTime for temporal tagging, so that temporal expressions can be extracted and normalized in multiple languages and across different domains, (ii) it includes a modern, fast event recognition and classification tool, and (iii) that it can be combined with different linguistic pre-processing annotations, and is thus not bound to license restricted preprocessing components.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1587
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3702–3708
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1587
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Leon Derczynski, Jannik Strötgen, Diana Maynard, Mark A. Greenwood, and Manuel Jung. 2016. GATE-Time: Extraction of Temporal Expressions and Events. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 3702–3708, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- GATE-Time: Extraction of Temporal Expressions and Events (Derczynski et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nodalida-main-page/L16-1587.pdf
- Code
- GateNLP/gateplugin-Tagger_GATE-TIME