Un annotateur automatique d'expressions temporelles du français et son évaluation sur le TimeBank du français

An Automatic Temporal Expression Annotator and its Evaluation on the French TimeBank In this article, we present a tool that extracts and normalises a subset of temporal expressions in French. This tool is being developed and used in the ANR (French National Research Agency) project Chronolines, applied to a corpus of provided by the Agence France Presse. The aim of the project is to semi-automatically construct event chronologies from this corpus. To do this, a detailed analysis of the temporal information conveyed by texts, is required. The system we present here is the first version of a temporal annotator that we have developed for French. We describe it in this article and present the results of an evaluation.