Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures
Vered Shwartz
2022Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 202216 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF
Abstract
We propose the task of culture-specific time expression grounding, i.e. mapping from expressions such as "morning" in English or "manh" in Portuguese to specific hours in the day. We propose 3 language-agnostic methods, one of which achieves promising results on gold standard annotations that we collected for a small number of languages. We then apply this method to 27 languages and analyze the similarities across languages in the grounding of time expressions.
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Computer scienceTask (project management)PortugueseExpression (computer science)Natural language processingArtificial intelligenceLinguisticsProgramming languageEngineeringSystems engineeringPhilosophyNatural Language Processing TechniquesSpeech and dialogue systemsTopic Modeling