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"abstract": "Reliable tagging of Temporal Expressions (TEs, e.g., Book a table at L'Osteria for Sunday evening) is a central requirement for Voice Assistants (VAs). However, there is a dearth of resources and systems for the VA domain, since publicly-available temporal taggers are trained only on substantially different domains, such as news and clinical text. Since the cost of annotating large datasets is prohibitive, we investigate the trade-off between in-domain data and performance in DA-Time, a hybrid temporal tagger for the English VA domain which combines a neural architecture for robust TE recognition, with a parserbased TE normalizer. We find that transfer learning goes a long way even with as little as 25 in-domain sentences: DA-Time performs at the state of the art on the news domain, and substantially outperforms it on the VA domain.",
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"text": "Reliable tagging of Temporal Expressions (TEs, e.g., Book a table at L'Osteria for Sunday evening) is a central requirement for Voice Assistants (VAs). However, there is a dearth of resources and systems for the VA domain, since publicly-available temporal taggers are trained only on substantially different domains, such as news and clinical text. Since the cost of annotating large datasets is prohibitive, we investigate the trade-off between in-domain data and performance in DA-Time, a hybrid temporal tagger for the English VA domain which combines a neural architecture for robust TE recognition, with a parserbased TE normalizer. We find that transfer learning goes a long way even with as little as 25 in-domain sentences: DA-Time performs at the state of the art on the news domain, and substantially outperforms it on the VA domain.",
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"text": "Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications rely on a temporal tagger to successfully identify and normalize temporal expressions (TEs: e.g. seven in the evening \u2192 T19:00). Examples include question answering, summarization, and information extraction (Str\u00f6tgen and Gertz, 2016) . Temporal tagging serves to anchor events on the temporal axis and contributes to event ordering sequences (UzZaman and Allen, 2010) . This is particularly useful for Voice Assistants (VAs), that is software agents such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, which are able to interpret spoken human queries (commands) and help their users perform simple tasks, including scheduling tasks such as setting reminders or creating and editing calendar events. For example, given the query Delete my Monday's meeting, a VA might have to retrieve information from a calendar corresponding to the day the user is referring to as Monday. In order to succeed in such tasks, VAs require a reliable temporal tagger, which can identify TEs and classify them into categories (TE recognition, for example, DATE vs. TIME) and then convert them into machine-readable canonical values (TE normalization, e.g. seven in the evening \u2192 T19:00).",
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"text": "The major shortcoming of current temporal taggers is arguably their domain dependence, as it is well known that NLP tools degrade on outof-domain data. The publicly available temporal taggers (Chang and Manning, 2012; Filannino et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2014) have been developed and evaluated on domain-specific datasets annotated according to the TimeML standard (Pustejovsky et al., 2003a) , notably the news (Pustejovsky et al., 2003b) , social media (Zhong et al., 2017) , narrative (Mazur and Dale, 2010) , or clinical domain (Galescu and Blaylock, 2012) . In contrast, to our best knowledge, there is no existing temporal tagger optimized for the VA domain, which differs considerably from other domains: it is dominated by concise stand-alone commands, typically referring to single future events (e.g., Add yoga to my calendar tomorrow at 6), often outside disambiguating discourse. As a result, coreference and event ordering play a smaller role than in other domains. Also, VA queries, compared to the news domain, contain more references to the time of an event (at 6) and to regular event repetitions (Wake me up every day at 7), as well as more underspecified or vague time expressions (Remind me to call mom later this evening) (Rong et al., 2017; Tissot et al., 2019) .",
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"text": "A possible solution to overcome the problem of the scarcity of tagged training data for the VA domain is to adopt a transfer learning approach (Bengio, 2011) . However, this leaves open the question of what the training curve looks like: how Add my appointment at Varin Salon on <TIMEX3 tid=\"t1\" type=\"DATE\" value=\" 2020-04-27\"> April 27th </TIMEX3> from <TIMEX3 tid=\"t2\" type=\"TIME\" value=\" 2020-04-27T10:30\" anchorTimeID=\"t1\"> 10:30 am </TIMEX3> to <TIMEX3 tid=\"t3\" type=\"TIME\" value=\" 2020-04-27T11:30\" anchorTimeID=\"t1\"> 11:30 am </TIMEX3> <TIMEX3 tid=\"t4\" type=\"DURATION\" value= \"PT1H\" beginPoint=\"t2\" endPoint=\"t3\" /> to the calendar. much data is necessary until performance \"flattens out\"? We investigate the performance of a temporal tagger pre-trained on news and fine-tuned on the VA domain and find that a surprisingly small amount of data (less than 100 in-domain sentences) is sufficient to achieve reasonable performance on the low-resource target domain, substantially outperforming existing systems on the VA domain. Paper structure. We first contrast annotated data in the news and VA domain (Sec. 2). After an overview of related work (Sec. 3), we introduce DA-Time, a hybrid temporal tagger for the VA domain, which uses a neural model for TE recognition and a parsing-based model for TE normalization (Sec. 4). After describing the experimental setup (Sec. 5), we present a detailed evaluation for varying amount of target domain annotations (Sec. 6).",
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"text": "TimeML is a widely-adopted framework for annotating time, events and event relations in text following the ISO 8601 standard 1 (Pustejovsky et al., 2003a) . TimeML has also been used for the influential TempEval competitions (Verhagen et al., 2007 (Verhagen et al., , 2010 UzZaman et al., 2013) which form the basis for most work on temporal tagging. TimeML specifies four major data structures: EVENT, TIMEX3, SIGNAL, and LINK. Among these, TIMEX3 describes TEs; EVENT, SIGNAL, and LINK describe relations among TEs. For the purposes of this study, we focus on TIMEX3 and do not take relations among events into account, as motivated by the lower significance of such relations for VAs. TEs in TIMEX3 are classified into four types: DATE (e.g., May 2nd), TIME (e.g., tomorrow morning), DURATION (e.g., an hour), SET (e.g., every Monday). An example is given in Figure 1 . Each TE in TIMEX3 is identified by a unique ID (tid attribute). TEs are assigned values in a normalized machine-readable format following the ISO 8601 standard. Reference date information is also included on TIME type, which refers to the date to which the TE is anchored. TEs of type DURATION are also tagged with a beginPoint and endPoint, corresponding to the tid of the two TEs the DURATION type expression is anchored to. As Figure 1 shows, sometimes the range of a duration remains underspecified. In this case, an empty tag of type DURATION is added. Similarly, if only the duration range and either the beginning or end point are mentioned (e.g. Book the room from 10:30 am for two hours), then an empty TIME type tag is added to indicate the missing TE. If the value of a TE is derived from the value of another one, the anchorTimeID attribute indicates which TE the tagged TIMEX3 is anchored to.",
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"text": "Voice Assistant domain Two datasets have recently become available for the VA domain: Snips (Coucke et al., 2018) and P\u00c2T\u00c9 (Zarcone et al., 2020) . Snips is a widely-adopted dataset for benchmarking intent and entity classification in the VA domain. No details are provided on how Snips was created. A subset of Snips was annotated with TimeML/TIMEX3 tags by Zarcone et al. (2020) . P\u00c2T\u00c9 is a TE-rich crowdsourced dataset for the VA domain, whose collection effort was specifically focused on eliciting naturally-sounding commands containing a wide variety of TEs. As such, we focus on P\u00c2T\u00c9 for our final evaluation.",
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