An Overview of Temporal Information Extraction
Kam‐Fai Wong, Yunqing Xia, Wenjie Li, Chunfa Yuan · International Journal of Computer Processing Of Languages · 2005
Research of temporal Information Extraction was regarded as a subtask of named entity recognition in 1990's. To date, the scope of this research is broadened, ranging from temporal expression extraction and annotation to temporal reasoning and understanding. This area of research is now a hot NLP topic and the results are applicable to question answering, information extraction, text summarization, etc. This paper presents the past, present and future research development in temporal information extraction.