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HeidelTime / heideltime

A multilingual, cross-domain temporal tagger developed at the Database Systems Research Group at Heidelberg University.
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HeidelTime demo detects age references as date #29

Closed bisoldi closed 9 years ago

bisoldi commented 9 years ago

I copied and pasted the text of the article found here:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/15/europe/germany-nazi-death-camp-verdict/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion&iref=obnetwork

Into the demo and tried it with all 4 "Document Types". It detected a reference to age (written in an informal manner) as references to a Date.

For example, the sentence "Groening, who's in his 90s, ..." detected "90's" as TYPE: DATE and VALUE: 199.

When written more formally (as one would expect from a professional, mainstream news source) as "Groening, who is over 90 years old" (or something similar), it doesn't detect anything (as I assume it shouldn't), however that's too common of a way of expressing age to be left alone I would think.

JannikStroetgen commented 9 years ago

Hi, thanks for opening this issue. You are right that stuff such as ages of persons should not be extracted. We will add a negative rule to catch expressions such as "in his/her \d\ds".

Thanks again, we'll keep you in the loop.

bisoldi commented 9 years ago

Great, thanks! We're just starting to get into implementing HeidelTime in our application and will post any other issues as they come up. I will let you close the issue as you see fit.