Representing and visualizing calendar expressions in texts

  • Authors:
  • Delphine Battistelli;Javier Couto;Jean-Luc Minel;Sylviane R. Schwer

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. Paris-Sorbonne, France;INCO, FING, UdelaR, Uruguay;MoDyCo, CNRS-Univ. ParisX, France;LIPN, CNRS-Univ. ParisXIII, France

  • Venue:
  • STEP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Semantics in Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Temporal expressions that refer to a part of a calendar area in terms of common calendar divisions are studied. Our claim is that such a "calendar expression" (CE) can be described by a succession of operators operating on a calendar base (CB). These operators are categorized: a pointing operator that transform a CB into a CE; a focalizing/shifting operator that reduces or shifts the CE into another CE, and finally a zoning operator that provides the wanted CE from this last CE. Relying on these operators, a set of annotations is presented which are used to automatically annotate biographic texts. A software application, plugged in the platform Navitext, is described that builds a calendar view of a biographic text.