Inferring temporal ordering of events in news

  • Authors:
  • Inderjeet Mani;Barry Schiffman;Jianping Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA;Columbia University, New York, NY;The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a domain-independent, machine-learning based approach to temporally anchoring and ordering events in news. The approach achieves 84.6% accuracy in temporally anchoring events and 75.4% accuracy in partially ordering them.