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Timeline Extraction

Timeline extraction is a natural-language-processing task that identifies events mentioned in text, anchors each event to a temporal expression, and arranges them into a chronologically ordered timeline. Formalised through the TempEval shared tasks (Verhagen et al., 2010), it enables automatic reconstruction of historical narratives, news event sequences, and clinical case progressions from unstructured text.

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Timeline Extraction (Temporal Event Ordering)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / text-mining
  • Verhagen, M. et al. (2010). SemEval-2010 Task 13: TempEval-2. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (ACL). · URL
  • Minard, A.L. et al. (2016). MEANTIME: MedliNe Annotated TimeLine. Proceedings of the 10th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). · URL
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