Transformer-Based Temporal Information Extraction and Application: A Review

ACL ARR 2025 February Submission4743 Authors

Abstract: Temporal information extraction (IE) aims to extract structured temporal information from unstructured text, thereby uncovering the implicit timelines within. This technique is applied across domains such as healthcare, newswire, and intelligence analysis, aiding models in these areas to perform temporal reasoning and enabling human users to grasp the temporal structure of text. Transformer-based pre-trained language models have produced revolutionary advancements in natural language processing, demonstrating exceptional performance across a multitude of tasks. Despite the achievements garnered by Transformer-based approaches in temporal IE, there is a lack of comprehensive reviews on these endeavors. In this paper, we aim to bridge this gap by systematically summarizing and analyzing the body of work on temporal IE using Transformers while highlighting potential future research directions.

Paper Type: Long

Research Area: Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing

Research Area Keywords: named entity recognition and relation extraction

Contribution Types: Surveys

Languages Studied: English

Submission Number: 4743