To Schedule or not to Schedule: Extracting Task Specific Temporal Entities and Associated Negation Constraints
Barun Patra, Chala Fufa, Pamela Bhattacharya, Charles Lee
NLP Applications Long Paper
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Abstract:
State of the art research for date-time\footnote{We use date-time entities, date entities, time entities and temporal entities interchangeably to denote entities associated with dates and/ or times.} entity extraction from text is task agnostic. Consequently, while the methods proposed in literature perform well for generic date-time extraction from texts, they don’t fare as well on task specific date-time entity extraction where only a subset of the date-time entities present in the text are pertinent to solving the task. Furthermore, some tasks require identifying negation constraints associated with the date-time entities to correctly reason over time. We showcase a novel model for extracting task-specific date-time entities along with their negation constraints. We show the efficacy of our method on the task of date-time understanding in the context of scheduling meetings for an email-based digital AI scheduling assistant. Our method achieves an absolute gain of 19% f-score points compared to baseline methods in detecting the date-time entities relevant to scheduling meetings and a 4% improvement over baseline methods for detecting negation constraints over date-time entities.
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