Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures

Vered Shwartz

ACL 2022findings23 citations

Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures

Abstract

We propose the task of culture-specific time expression grounding, i.e. mapping from expressions such as “morning” in English or “Manhã” in Portuguese to specific hours in the day. We propose 3 language-agnostic methods, one of which achieves promising results on gold standard annotations that we collected for a small number of languages. We then apply this method to 27 languages and analyze the similarities across languages in the grounding of time expressions.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{shwartz-2022-good,
    title = "Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures",
    author = "Shwartz, Vered",
    editor = "Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Villavicencio, Aline",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.224/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.224",
    pages = "2842--2853"
}