Exploiting aspectual features and connecting words for summarization-inspired temporal-relation extraction

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1681-1704

  Dorr, Bonnie J ^a   Gaasterland, Terry ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Parsing and corpus analysis; Summarization; Temporal ordering; Temporal relation extraction; Tense, aspect and connecting words

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; SEMANTICS;

PARSING AND CORPUS ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ORDERING; TEMPORAL-RELATION EXTRACTION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34547931461     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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