Temporal Information Extraction (State of the art)

Results

The following results refers to the TempEval-3 challenge, the last evaluation exercise.

Task A: Temporal expression extraction and normalisation

The table shows the best result for each system. Different runs per system are not shown.

System name	Short description	Main publication	Identification						Normalisation		Overall score	Software	License
			Strict matching			Lenient matching			Accuracy
			Pre.	Rec.	F1	Pre.	Rec.	F1	Type	Value
HeidelTime
NavyTime
ManTIME
SUTime
ATT
ClearTK
JU-CSE
KUL
FSS-TimEx

Challenges

• TempEval, Temporal Relation Identification, 2007: web page
• TempEval-2, Evaluating Events, Time Expressions, and Temporal Relations, 2010: web page
• TempEval-3, Evaluating Time Expressions, Events, and Temporal Relations, 2013: web page

References

• UzZaman, N., Llorens, H., Derczynski, L., Allen, J., Verhagen, M., and Pustejovsky, J. Semeval-2013 task 1: Tempeval-3: Evaluating time expressions, events, and temporal relations. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–9.
• Bethard, S. ClearTK-TimeML: A minimalist approach to tempeval 2013. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), vol. 2, Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 10–14.
• Stro ̈tgen, J., Zell, J., and Gertz, M. Heideltime: Tuning english and developing spanish resources for tempeval-3. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 15–19.
• Jung, H., and Stent, A. ATT1: Temporal annotation using big windows and rich syntactic and semantic features. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 20–24.
• Filannino, M., Brown, G., and Nenadic, G. ManTIME: Temporal expression identification and normalization in the Tempeval-3 challenge. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evalu- ation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 53–57.
• Zavarella, V., and Tanev, H. FSS-TimEx for tempeval-3: Extracting temporal information from text. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 58–63.
• Kolya, A. K., Kundu, A., Gupta, R., Ekbal, A., and Bandyopadhyay, S. JU_CSE: A CRF based approach to annotation of temporal expression, event and temporal relations. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 64–72.
• Chambers, N. Navytime: Event and time ordering from raw text. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 73–77.
• Chang, A., and Manning, C. D. SUTime: Evaluation in TempEval-3. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 78–82.
• Kolomiyets, O., and Moens, M.-F. KUL: Data-driven approach to temporal parsing of newswire articles. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceed- ings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 83–87.
• Laokulrat, N., Miwa, M., Tsuruoka, Y., and Chikayama, T. UTTime: Temporal relation classification using deep syntactic features. In Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Se- mantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013) (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 2013), Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 88– 92.

See also

• State of the art

External links

• TimexPortal