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The harnessing of time-related information from text for the use of information retrieval requires a leap from the surface forms of the expressions to a formalized time-axis. Often the expressions are used to form chronological sequences of events. However, we want to be able to determine the temporal similarity, i.e., the overlap of temporal references of two documents and use this similarity in Topic Detection and Tracking, for example. We present a methodology for extraction of temporal expressions and a scheme of comparing the temporal evidence of the news documents. We also examine the behavior of the temporal expressions and run experiments on English News corpus.
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Makkonen, J., Ahonen-Myka, H. (2003). Utilizing Temporal Information in Topic Detection and Tracking. In: Koch, T., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_36
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