Extracting and Normalizing Temporal Expressions
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The NLToolset is a framework of tools, techniques, and resources designed for building text processing applications. It is a pattern based system which uses world knowledge resident in a lexicon, a location gazetteer, and lists of universal terms, such as first names and the Fortune 500 companies. This knowledge base is extensible with generic, as well as domain-specific, information. It applies lexicosemantic pattern matching in the form of basic structural patterns (possible-title firstname middle-
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