Representation of Temporal Relationship Among Events

Abstract

Representation and Reasoning about a temporal information became a crucial aspect for many of the natural language process applications namely question answering system temporal summarization etc., Temporal information exists majorly in two forms i.e either in in the form of qualitative nature or quantitative. Temporal information extraction is vital to project the relation among the events that occur in any scenario. This information intern enables to answer queries about date, duration and other temporal nature of events. This paper focus on automatic extraction and representation of temporal relation among the events. Few attributes of TIMEML tags namely and are used to retrieve temporal information among events. Reasoning was applied to retrieve the unknown information from the known ones. Experiments were conducted on TIMEML corpus and the results obtained from the experiments were found to be encouraging.