Domain-sensitive Temporal Tagging (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) - Softcover

Strötgen, Jannik; Gertz, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627054596 ISBN 13: 9781627054591

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool, 2016

Synopsis

This book covers the topic of temporal tagging, the detection of temporal expressions and the normalization of their semantics to some standard format. It places a special focus on the challenges and opportunities of domain-sensitive temporal tagging. After providing background knowledge on the concept of time, the book continues with a comprehensive survey of current research on temporal tagging. The authors provide an overview of existing techniques and tools, and highlight key issues that need to be addressed. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and application developers who need to become familiar with the topic and want to know the recent trends, current tools and techniques, as well as different application domains in which temporal information is of utmost importance.

Due to the prevalence of temporal expressions in diverse types of documents and the importance of temporal information in any information space, temporal tagging is an important task in natural language processing (NLP), and applications of several domains can benefit from the output of temporal taggers to provide more meaningful and useful results.

In recent years, temporal tagging has been an active field in NLP and computational linguistics. Several approaches to temporal tagging have been proposed, annotation standards have been developed, gold standard data sets have been created, and research competitions have been organized. Furthermore, some temporal taggers have also been made publicly available so that temporal tagging output is not just exploited in research, but is finding its way into real world applications. In addition, this book particularly focuses on domain-specific temporal tagging of documents. This is a crucial aspect as different types of documents (e.g., news articles, narratives, and colloquial texts) result in diverse challenges for temporal taggers and should be processed in a domain-sensitive manner.

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Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

Review

“This gives a strong and far-reaching catalogue of temporal expression resources and tools, more than I've ever seen gathered in one place before, with an objective and subjective description of each. This makes it better than a reference resource, guiding the reader through where the author thinks resources will be useful... All in all, this makes for a comprehensive reference work, well-organised and accessible to masters students or even final-year bachelors students, with useful concepts explained from the ground up. An excellent book in the area.” – Natural Language Engineering 23 (3): 481-483.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627054596
• ISBN 13: 9781627054591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151