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TIMERS: Document-level Temporal Relation Extraction

1 Aug 2021ACL 2021 5archive 2025-07-28

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 in the English language. 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.

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Relation ClassificationRelation ExtractionTemporal Relation ClassificationTemporal Relation Extraction

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Temporal Relation Classification MATRES TIMERS F1 82.3 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Relation Classification TB-Dense TIMERS F1 67.8 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Relation Classification TDDAuto TIMERS F1 71.1 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Temporal Relation Classification TDDMan TIMERS F1 45.5 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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