Extracting meaning from temporal nouns and temporal prepositions

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-50

  Schilder, Frank ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Thomson Legal and Regulatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Information extraction; Semantics for temporal expressions and temporal prepositions; Temporal information; Temporal reasoning; Temporal reference in discourse

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS AND INDEXING; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LINGUISTIC PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TEMPORAL REASONING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; THEORY;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 5444237688     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1017068.1017071     Document Type: Review

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