Publications

TIMERS: Document-level Temporal Relation Extraction

ACL 2021

Publication date: August 4, 2021

Puneet Mathur, Rajiv Jain, Franck Dernoncourt, Vlad Morariu, Quan Hung Tran, Dinesh Manocha

We present TIMERS - a TIME, Rhetorical and Syntactic-aware model for document-level temporal relation classification. Our proposed method leverages rhetorical discourse features and temporal arguments from semantic role labels, in addition to traditional local syntactic features, trained through a Gated Relational-GCN. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model outperforms previous methods by 5-18% on the TDDiscourse, TimeBank-Dense, and MATRES datasets due to our discourse-level modeling.