Summary of Tlex: An Efficient Method For Extracting Exact Timelines From Timeml Temporal Graphs, by Mustafa Ocal et al.
TLEX: An Efficient Method for Extracting Exact Timelines from TimeML Temporal Graphs
by Mustafa Ocal, Ning Xie, Mark Finlayson
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents an exact, end-to-end solution called TLEX (TimeLine EXtraction) to extract timelines from TimeML annotated texts. It builds upon prior work on solving point algebra problems and transforms TimeML annotations into a collection of timelines arranged in a trunk-and-branch structure. TLEX checks the consistency of the temporal graph, solves it, and identifies specific relations involved in inconsistencies. Additionally, it performs novel identifications of sections with indeterminate order, critical for downstream tasks like event alignment. The solution is evaluated on 385 TimeML annotated texts from four corpora, showing high accuracy (98-100%) along five dimensions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps computers understand the timeline of events in text. It’s a tool that takes input from humans and produces an organized list of events. This is useful for tasks like aligning different timelines or identifying inconsistencies. The tool, called TLEX, uses previous research to create a timeline structure and checks if it makes sense. It can even identify which parts of the timeline are unclear. The paper tests this tool on many texts and shows that it works very well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment
