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This paper presents a prototype system that extracts events from the United States Code on U.S. immigration nationality and links these events to temporal constraints, such as in entered the United States before December 31, 2005. In addition, the paper provides an overview of what kinds of other temporal information can be found in different types of legal documents. In particular, it discusses how one could do further reasoning with the extracted temporal information for case law and statutes.
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Schilder, F. (2007). Event Extraction and Temporal Reasoning in Legal Documents. In: Schilder, F., Katz, G., Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75989-8_5
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