A Method for Recognizing Temporal Expressions in Estonian Natural Language Dialogue Systems
Margus Treumuth · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2007
Extraction of temporal expressions from an input text is an important step in natural language processing tasks.Automated extraction of temporal expressions can be used in dialogue systems where temporal constraints need to be enforced.The paper proposes an algorithm for processing temporal information in natural language.The algorithm was implemented as a standalone rule-based temporal expression recognizer and was made available as a web-service.Finally the implemented module was partially integrated into a spoken language dialogue system that is an interface to a theater information database.There is no evaluation as this work is still in progress.