the tasks of figuring out when events in a text happened and how they relate to each other in time

  • Temporal Expressions - time related words/phrases (e.g. Thursday, 3PM, two days from now, next year, etc)
  • Temporal Expression Recognition - finds mentions of temporal expressions within unstructured text
  • Temporal Analysis - maps temporal expressions onto specific calendar dates or times of day and then to use those times to situate events in time
    • includes the following subtasks:
      • anchoring temporal expressions relative to a root date or time
      • associating temporal expressions with the events in the text
      • arranging the events into a complete and coherent timeline