Analysis of Temporal Expressions Annotated in Clinical Notes
Hegler Correa Tissot, Angus Roberts, Leon Derczynski, Genevieve Gorrell, Marcus Didonet Del Fabro · UCL Discovery (University College London) · 2015
Annotating the semantics of time in language is important. THYME is a recent temporal annotation standard for clinical texts. This paper examines temporal expressions in the first major corpus released under this standard. It investigates where the standard has proven difficult to apply, and gives a series of recommendations regarding temporal annotation in this important domain.