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TimeML Annotation of Events and Temporal Expressions in Arabic Texts

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Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2019)

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Events and temporal expressions are crucial elements in the construction of the text. In this article, we present the first free Arabic corpus for events and temporal expressions by adapting the TimeML standard. For this, we first present the concept of events and temporal expressions as well as their main ontological and grammatical characteristics for the Arabic language and according to the TimeML standard. Second, we describe our annotation scheme and annotated corpus.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/collaborations/past-projects/ace/annotation-tasks-and-specifications.

  2. 2.

    http://www.timeml.org/.

  3. 3.

    https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/docs/LDC2006T08/timebank.html.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/nafaa5/Temporal-ArEvent-Corpora-.

  5. 5.

    https://wiki.dbpedia.org/datasets/events.

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/nafaa5/arabic-event-gazetteers-.

  7. 7.

    https://camel.abudhabi.nyu.edu/madamira/?locale=en.

  8. 8.

    http://arabicnlp.pro/alp/.

  9. 9.

    https://heideltime.ifi.uni-heidelberg.de.

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    Nafaa Haffar, Emna Hkiri & Mounir Zrigui

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  1. Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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  2. University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, Pau, France

    Richard Chbeir

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Haffar, N., Hkiri, E., Zrigui, M. (2019). TimeML Annotation of Events and Temporal Expressions in Arabic Texts. In: Nguyen, N., Chbeir, R., Exposito, E., Aniorté, P., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11683. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28377-3_17

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