Title: Chinese temporal relation resolution based on Chinese-English parallel corpus

Authors: Lubiao Li; Junsheng Zhang; Yanqing He; Huilin Wang

Addresses: IT Support Center, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing, 100038, China ' IT Support Center, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing, 100038, China ' IT Support Center, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing, 100038, China ' IT Support Center, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing, 100038, China

Abstract: This paper studies the annotation of temporal objects such as EVENT-type and TIMEX3-type elements in Chinese text based on Chinese-English bilingual parallel corpus. We propose and implement a temporal relation resolution (TRR) engine for Chinese text. We use temporal recognition and normalisation tools to annotate the English text, and then map the annotations of English text to the Chinese text by word alignment. The constructed Chinese TimeBank could be used for TRR research based on TimeML in Chinese text.

Keywords: Time Markup Language; TimeML; TimeBank; temporal relation resolution; TRR; Chinese TimeBank; parallel corpus.

DOI: 10.1504/IJES.2017.083730

International Journal of Embedded Systems, 2017 Vol.9 No.2, pp.101 - 111

Received: 01 Dec 2014
Accepted: 15 Apr 2015
Published online: 21 Apr 2017 *

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