Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures
Vered Shwartz · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 · 2022
We propose the task of culture-specific time expression grounding, i.e. mapping from expressions such as "morning" in English or "manhã" in Portuguese to specific hours in the day.We propose 3 language-agnostic methods, one of which achieves promising results on gold standard annotations that we collected for a small number of languages.We then apply this method to 27 languages and analyze the similarities across languages in the grounding of time expressions.