Zuo Ya-yao, Long Yao-fa, Li Jie-jun. Recognition and Normalization of Chinese Time Expressions Based on Rules[J]. 2014, 31(3): 88-94.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-7162.2014.03.016.
Recognition and Normalization of Chinese Time Expressions Based on Rules
Concerning the problem with the recognition and normalization of time expressions in texts
aiming at the diversity and unstructured forms of time expressions
it proposed the idea of describing temporal elements to divide the types of time expressions and their forms of normalization. With the method that combined regular expressions with Trie tree structure
it built the recognition tree of time expressions
which could recognize time expressions automatically. Finally
it proposed the normalization algorithm and correction algorithm to deal with the recognized results. The results are pretty good.