Automatic Detection of Temporal Information in Ukrainian General-language Texts

Natalia Grabar (1) , Thierry Hamon (2, 3)

1 STL - Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163
2 UP13 - Université Paris 13
3 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

Temporal information provides important and precise indications on facts and events. Yet, when automatically processing unstructured documents, it may be complicated to extract temporality-related information. Besides, such tools are not available for many languages. We propose to adapt an existing tool for the automatic detection and annotation of temporal information in Ukrainian. The tool is rule-based. It permits to detects temporal expressions, be they absolute or relative, and to normalize them. We test the adapted tool on two corpora from different genres and evaluate the results.

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Natalia Grabar, Thierry Hamon. Automatic Detection of Temporal Information in Ukrainian General-language Texts. International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Systems (CoLInS 2018)., Jun 2018, Lviv, Ukraine. ⟨halshs-01968346⟩