Temporal Information Extraction for Question Answering Using Syntactic Dependencies in an LSTM-based Architecture

Yuanliang Meng, Anna Rumshisky, Alexey Romanov


Abstract
In this paper, we propose to use a set of simple, uniform in architecture LSTM-based models to recover different kinds of temporal relations from text. Using the shortest dependency path between entities as input, the same architecture is used to extract intra-sentence, cross-sentence, and document creation time relations. A “double-checking” technique reverses entity pairs in classification, boosting the recall of positive cases and reducing misclassifications between opposite classes. An efficient pruning algorithm resolves conflicts globally. Evaluated on QA-TempEval (SemEval2015 Task 5), our proposed technique outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. We also conduct intrinsic evaluation and post state-of-the-art results on Timebank-Dense.
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D17-1092
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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887–896
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10.18653/v1/D17-1092
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Yuanliang Meng, Anna Rumshisky, and Alexey Romanov. 2017. Temporal Information Extraction for Question Answering Using Syntactic Dependencies in an LSTM-based Architecture. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 887–896, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Temporal Information Extraction for Question Answering Using Syntactic Dependencies in an LSTM-based Architecture (Meng et al., EMNLP 2017)
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