TexTime: Temoral Expressions and Time Processing

Growing out of the Situation Entity Classification Project, TexTime aims to build systems that learn to classify documents with respect to situation entities, time and discourse mode.

We have a paper coming up in ACL-07 featuring preliminary results in the classification of Situation Entities in text. At present, we are broadening the scope of the project to start looking at learning to characterize the temporal structure of texts using the TimeML standard.

• Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Carlota Smith, "A Seqencing Model for Situation Entity Classification". In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic. 2007.