TimeLex: A Suite of Tools for Processing Temporal Information in Legal Texts.

In this paper we present a suite of tools named TimeLex, that includes different systems able to process temporal information from legal texts. The first tool, called lawORdate, helps preprocessing legal references in texts in Spanish that can be misleading when trying to find dates in texts. The second one, Anotador, is a temporal tagger (this is, a tool that finds temporal expressions, such as dates or durations) that identifies temporal expressions in texts and provides a standard value for each of them. Finally, a third tool, called WhenTheFact, extracts relevant events from judgments, allowing a full processing of the temporal dimension of this kind of texts, and being a first step towards the complete temporal information processing in the legal domain.