Why don't Romanians have a five o'clock tea, Nor Halloween, but have a kind of Valentines day?

  • Authors:
  • Corina Forăscu

  • Affiliations:
  • University Al.I. Cuza of Iaşi, Faculty of Computer Science, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Recently the focus on temporal information in NLP applications has increased. Based on general temporal theories, annotations and standards, the paper presents the steps performed towards obtaining a parallel English-Romanian corpus, with the temporal information marked in both languages. The automatic import from English to Romanian of the TimeML markup has a success rate of 96.53%. The paper analyzes the main situations that appeared during the automatic import: perfect or impossible transfer, transfer with amendments or for the language specific phenomena. This corpus study permits to decide how import techniques can be used on the temporal domain.