Event Extraction Approach from Texts
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Abstract
A new challenge is added to the Natural Language Processing Community; how to analyze the new documents forms resulting from the Web 2.0? We are interested in a particular kind of information which is events. Thus, we propose a generic approach to extract and analyze events from text. We propose an event extraction algorithm with a polynomial complexity O(n). This algorithm is based on developed semantic map of events. We validate the first component of our approach by the development of the "EventEC" system.
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