Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures

Vered Shwartz

doi:10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.224

Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures

Vered Shwartz

University of British Columbia

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Abstract

We propose the task of culture-specific time expression grounding, i.e. mapping from expressions such as “morning” in English or “manhã” in Portuguese to specific hours in the day. We propose 3 language-agnostic methods, one of which achieves promising results on gold standard annotations that we collected for a small number of languages. We then apply this method to 27 languages and analyze the similarities across languages in the grounding of time expressions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL 2022
Editors	Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	2842-2853
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781955917254
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.224
State	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes
Event	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 May 2022 → 27 May 2022

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)	0736-587X

Conference

Conference	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	22/05/22 → 27/05/22

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© 2022 Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Shwartz, V. (2022). Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures. In S. Muresan, P. Nakov, & A. Villavicencio (Eds.), ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL 2022 (pp. 2842-2853). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.224

Shwartz, Vered. / Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures. ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL 2022. editor / Smaranda Muresan ; Preslav Nakov ; Aline Villavicencio. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. pp. 2842-2853 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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Shwartz V. Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures. In Muresan S, Nakov P, Villavicencio A, editors, ACL 2022 - 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2022. p. 2842-2853. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.224

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