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Temporal information extraction (TIE) has attracted a great deal of interest over the last two decades, leading to the development of a significant number of datasets. Despite its benefits, having access to a large volume of corpora makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Hugo Sousa , Alípio Jorge , Ricardo Campos

Knowledge is inherently time-sensitive and continuously evolves over time. Although current Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enrich LLMs with external knowledge, they largely ignore this temporal nature. This raises two…

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Finance-related news such as Bloomberg News, CNN Business and Forbes are valuable sources of real data for market screening systems. In news, an expert shares opinions beyond plain technical analyses that include context such as political,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Silvia García-Méndez , Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Ana Barros-Vila , Francisco J. González-Castaño

We propose a scalable method for constructing a temporal opinion knowledge base with large language models (LLMs) as automated annotators. Despite the demonstrated utility of time-series opinion analysis of text for downstream applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Gaurav Negi , Atul Kr. Ojha , Omnia Zayed , Paul Buitelaar

This paper describes in outline a method for translating Japanese temporal expressions into English. We argue that temporal expressions form a special subset of language that is best handled as a special module in machine translation. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Francis Bond , Kentaro Ogura , Hajime Uchino

Temporal validity is an important property of text that is useful for many downstream applications, such as recommender systems, conversational AI, or story understanding. Existing benchmarking tasks often require models to identify the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Georg Wenzel , Adam Jatowt

Time is deeply woven into how people perceive, and communicate about the world. Almost unconsciously, we provide our language utterances with temporal cues, like verb tenses, and we can hardly produce sentences without such cues. Extracting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Artuur Leeuwenberg , Marie-Francine Moens

This document presents Annotated English, a system of diacritical symbols which turns English pronunciation into a precise and unambiguous process. The annotations are defined and located in such a way that the original English text is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Jose Hernandez-Orallo

Temporal graphs represent graph evolution over time, and have been receiving considerable research attention. Work on expressing temporal graph patterns or discovering temporal motifs typically assumes relatively simple temporal…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Amir Pouya Aghasadeghi , Jan Van den Bussche , Julia Stoyanovich

Temporal Expression Extraction (TEE) is essential for understanding time in natural language. It has applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering, information retrieval, and causal inference. To date,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yuwei Cao , William Groves , Tanay Kumar Saha , Joel R. Tetreault , Alex Jaimes , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Developing Text Normalization (TN) systems for Text-to-Speech (TTS) on new languages is hard. We propose a novel architecture to facilitate it for multiple languages while using data less than 3% of the size of the data used by the state of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Shubhi Tyagi , Antonio Bonafonte , Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba , Javier Latorre

We describe a recently developed corpus annotation scheme for evaluating parsers that avoids shortcomings of current methods. The scheme encodes grammatical relations between heads and dependents, and has been used to mark up a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 John Carroll , Guido Minnen , Ted Briscoe

To be informative, an evaluation must measure how well systems generalize to realistic unseen data. We identify limitations of and propose improvements to current evaluations of text-to-SQL systems. First, we compare human-generated and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Catherine Finegan-Dollak , Jonathan K. Kummerfeld , Li Zhang , Karthik Ramanathan , Sesh Sadasivam , Rui Zhang , Dragomir Radev

Analysis of informative contents and sentiments of social users has been attempted quite intensively in the recent past. Most of the systems are usable only for monolingual data and fails or gives poor results when used on data with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Soumil Mandal , Sainik Kumar Mahata , Dipankar Das

Temporal relations between events and time expressions in a document are often modeled in an unstructured manner where relations between individual pairs of time expressions and events are considered in isolation. This often results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Yuchen Zhang , Nianwen Xue

Existing temporal relation (TempRel) annotation schemes often have low inter-annotator agreements (IAA) even between experts, suggesting that the current annotation task needs a better definition. This paper proposes a new multi-axis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Qiang Ning , Hao Wu , Dan Roth

Temporal Logic (TL) can be used to rigorously specify complex high-level specification for systems in many engineering applications. The translation between natural language (NL) and TL has been under-explored due to the lack of dataset and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yongchao Chen , Rujul Gandhi , Yang Zhang , Chuchu Fan

A Prompt-based Text-To-Speech model allows a user to control different aspects of speech, such as speaking rate and perceived gender, through natural language instruction. Although user-friendly, such approaches are on one hand constrained:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Atli Sigurgeirsson , Simon King

Short text clustering is a known use case in the text analytics community. When the structure and content falls in the natural language domain e.g. Twitter posts or instant messages, then natural language techniques can be used, provided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Thanasis Schoinas , Benjamin Guinard , Diba Esbati , Richard Chalk

Temporal Information and Event Markup Language (TIE-ML) is a markup strategy and annotation schema to improve the productivity and accuracy of temporal and event related annotation of corpora to facilitate machine learning based model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Damir Cavar , Billy Dickson , Ali Aljubailan , Soyoung Kim