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Main Authors: Wenzel, Georg, Jatowt, Adam
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00779
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author Wenzel, Georg
Jatowt, Adam
author_facet Wenzel, Georg
Jatowt, Adam
contents Temporal validity is an important property of text that is useful for many downstream applications, such as recommender systems, conversational AI, or story understanding. Existing benchmarking tasks often require models to identify the temporal validity duration of a single statement. However, in many cases, additional contextual information, such as sentences in a story or posts on a social media profile, can be collected from the available text stream. This contextual information may greatly alter the duration for which a statement is expected to be valid. We propose Temporal Validity Change Prediction, a natural language processing task benchmarking the capability of machine learning models to detect contextual statements that induce such change. We create a dataset consisting of temporal target statements sourced from Twitter and crowdsource sample context statements. We then benchmark a set of transformer-based language models on our dataset. Finally, we experiment with temporal validity duration prediction as an auxiliary task to improve the performance of the state-of-the-art model.
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spellingShingle Temporal Validity Change Prediction
Wenzel, Georg
Jatowt, Adam
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
68T50
I.2.7
Temporal validity is an important property of text that is useful for many downstream applications, such as recommender systems, conversational AI, or story understanding. Existing benchmarking tasks often require models to identify the temporal validity duration of a single statement. However, in many cases, additional contextual information, such as sentences in a story or posts on a social media profile, can be collected from the available text stream. This contextual information may greatly alter the duration for which a statement is expected to be valid. We propose Temporal Validity Change Prediction, a natural language processing task benchmarking the capability of machine learning models to detect contextual statements that induce such change. We create a dataset consisting of temporal target statements sourced from Twitter and crowdsource sample context statements. We then benchmark a set of transformer-based language models on our dataset. Finally, we experiment with temporal validity duration prediction as an auxiliary task to improve the performance of the state-of-the-art model.
title Temporal Validity Change Prediction
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
68T50
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00779