Extra tion of Temporal Expressions from Finnish News-feed

Extraction of Temporal Expressions from Finnish News-feed

The harnessing of time-related information from text for the use of event detection, for example, requires a leap from the surface forms of the expressions to a formalized time-axis. We present a methodology for extraction of Finnish temporal expressions and a scheme of comparing the temporal evidence of the news documents. We employ the comparison in identifying news events.

Applying Semantic Classes in Event Detection and Tracking

Event detection and tracking is a somewhat recent area of information retrieval research. The detection is about spotting new, previously unreported real-life events from online news-feed, while the tracking assigns documents to previously spotted events. We propose a new vector model consisting of four semantic classes from the documents: locations, proper names, temporal expressions and norma...

A System for Extra tion of Temporal Expressions from

From Temporal Expressions To Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging Of News Messages

We present a semantic tagging system for temporal expressions and discuss how the temporal information conveyed by these expressions can be extracted. The performance of the system was evaluated wrt. a small hand-annotated corpus of news messages.

(Un)Translatability of Persian Idiomatic Expressions to English in Political Discourse

The present study sought to investigate the extent to which Persian idiomatic expressions would influence the western translators' strategies in providing the ultimate product in English, and it also attempted to uncover the underlying assumptions in target text, then to suggest some weighty strategies to overcome difficulties with translation. For this purpose, the data was analyzed within the...