Un annotateur automatique d'expressions temporelles du français et son évaluation sur le TimeBank du français (An Automatic Temporal Expression Annotator and its Evaluation on the French TimeBank) [in French]

An Automatic Temporal Expression Annotator and its Evaluation on the French TimeBank In this article, we present a tool that extracts and normalises a subset of temporal expressions in French. This tool is being developed and used in the ANR (French National Research Agency) project Chronolines, applied to a corpus of provided by the Agence France Presse. The aim of the project is to semi-automatically construct event chronologies from this corpus. To do this, a detailed analysis of the temporal information conveyed by texts, is required. The system we present here is the first version of a temporal annotator that we have developed for French. We describe it in this article and present the results of an evaluation.

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