Zhili Feng

A Structured Learning Approach to Temporal Relation Extraction

2017

Identifying temporal relations between events is an essential step towards natural language understanding. However, the temporal relation between two events in a story depends on, and is often dictated by, relations among other events. Consequently, …

Joint Reasoning for Temporal and Causal Relations

2018

Understanding temporal and causal relations between events is a fundamental natural language understanding task. Because a cause must occur earlier than its effect, temporal and causal relations are closely related and one relation often dictates …