Time expression analysis and recognition using syntactic token types and general heuristic rules

ACL 2017 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (Long Papers)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2017, Pages 420-429

  Zhong, Xiaoshi ^a   Sun, Aixin ^a   Cambria, Erik ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

BENCHMARK DATASETS; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; HEURISTIC RULES; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TIME INFORMATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 85038556598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/P17-1039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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