Toward Automatic Chinese Temporal Information Extraction. Yuan, C. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001.
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Li, Wong and Yuan are concerned with the extraction of information concerning the timing of events from Chinese text that will reveal not only explicit but implicit temporal information. They study Hong Kong financial news reports in an attempt to formulate a formal representation of temporal knowledge. The single Chinese verb form gives no clue as to tense, but tense may be determined from associated temporal adverbs and aspect auxiliary words. One can identify verbs that are either static(reflecting a continuing existing state) or dynamic (reflecting a change of state), either durative (exhibiting a starting and an ending point separated by observable time) or instantaneous (persisting for a very short duration) or telic (stopping at a point where change is complete) or nontelic (exhibiting no definite indication of a stopping point) although this may be a factor of their objects rather than their pure semantics. If this information is extracted from a text along with any implicit or explicit temporal expression it can be used to fill frame slots providing a temporal description. Text is parsed, noun phrases and other components identified, the verb used to look up its properties and any aspect words identified. The classed verb and any temporal noun phrase provide the temporal relations to fill the frame slots for the text. The framed information can then be used to answer temporal questions.
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 abstract = {Li, Wong and Yuan are concerned with the extraction of information concerning the timing of events from Chinese text that will reveal not only explicit but implicit temporal information. They study Hong Kong financial news reports in an attempt to formulate a formal representation of temporal knowledge. The single Chinese verb form gives no clue as to tense, but tense may be determined from associated temporal adverbs and aspect auxiliary words. One can identify verbs that are either static(reflecting a continuing existing state) or dynamic (reflecting a change of state), either durative (exhibiting a starting and an ending point separated by observable time) or instantaneous (persisting for a very short duration) or telic (stopping at a point where change is complete) or nontelic (exhibiting no definite indication of a stopping point) although this may be a factor of their objects rather than their pure semantics. If this information is extracted from a text along with any implicit or explicit temporal expression it can be used to fill frame slots providing a temporal description. Text is parsed, noun phrases and other components identified, the verb used to look up its properties and any aspect words identified. The classed verb and any temporal noun phrase provide the temporal relations to fill the frame slots for the text. The framed information can then be used to answer temporal questions.},
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