Combining automatic acquisition of knowledge with machine learning approaches for multilingual temporal recognition and normalization

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3319-3332

  Saquete, E ^a   Ferrandez O ^a   Ferrandez S ^a   Martinez Barco P ^a   Munoz R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Natural language processing; Temporal expression normalization; Temporal expression recognition; Temporal expressions; Temporal information; Temporal reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EDUCATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MICROFLUIDICS; ROBOT LEARNING; SYNTACTICS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

APPLIED (CO); AUTOMATIC ACQUISITION; DIFFERENT TYPES; ELSEVIER (CO); F MEASURE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); IN ORDER; KNOWLEDGE BASE (KB); LANGUAGES (TRADITIONAL); MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY (MAXENT); MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODEL (MEM); TEMPORAL EXPRESSION (TE); TRAINING CORPUS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 45849098357     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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