ACL 2021short61 citations

TIMERS: Document-level Temporal Relation Extraction

Puneet Mathur, Rajiv Jain, Franck Dernoncourt, Vlad Morariu, Quan Hung Tran, Dinesh Manocha

Abstract

We present TIMERS - a TIME, Rhetorical and Syntactic-aware model for document-level temporal relation classification in the English language. Our proposed method leverages rhetorical discourse features and temporal arguments from semantic role labels, in addition to traditional local syntactic features, trained through a Gated Relational-GCN. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model outperforms previous methods by 5-18% on the TDDiscourse, TimeBank-Dense, and MATRES datasets due to our discourse-level modeling.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{mathur-etal-2021-timers,
    title = "{TIMERS}: Document-level Temporal Relation Extraction",
    author = "Mathur, Puneet  and
      Jain, Rajiv  and
      Dernoncourt, Franck  and
      Morariu, Vlad  and
      Tran, Quan Hung  and
      Manocha, Dinesh",
    editor = "Zong, Chengqing  and
      Xia, Fei  and
      Li, Wenjie  and
      Navigli, Roberto",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.67/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.67",
    pages = "524--533"
}