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Main Authors: Su, Xin, Howard, Phillip, Bethard, Steven
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07470
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author Su, Xin
Howard, Phillip
Bethard, Steven
author_facet Su, Xin
Howard, Phillip
Bethard, Steven
contents Temporal information extraction (IE) aims to extract structured temporal information from unstructured text, thereby uncovering the implicit timelines within. This technique is applied across domains such as healthcare, newswire, and intelligence analysis, aiding models in these areas to perform temporal reasoning and enabling human users to grasp the temporal structure of text. Transformer-based pre-trained language models have produced revolutionary advancements in natural language processing, demonstrating exceptional performance across a multitude of tasks. Despite the achievements garnered by Transformer-based approaches in temporal IE, there is a lack of comprehensive reviews on these endeavors. In this paper, we aim to bridge this gap by systematically summarizing and analyzing the body of work on temporal IE using Transformers while highlighting potential future research directions.
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spellingShingle Transformer-Based Temporal Information Extraction and Application: A Review
Su, Xin
Howard, Phillip
Bethard, Steven
Computation and Language
Temporal information extraction (IE) aims to extract structured temporal information from unstructured text, thereby uncovering the implicit timelines within. This technique is applied across domains such as healthcare, newswire, and intelligence analysis, aiding models in these areas to perform temporal reasoning and enabling human users to grasp the temporal structure of text. Transformer-based pre-trained language models have produced revolutionary advancements in natural language processing, demonstrating exceptional performance across a multitude of tasks. Despite the achievements garnered by Transformer-based approaches in temporal IE, there is a lack of comprehensive reviews on these endeavors. In this paper, we aim to bridge this gap by systematically summarizing and analyzing the body of work on temporal IE using Transformers while highlighting potential future research directions.
title Transformer-Based Temporal Information Extraction and Application: A Review
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07470