Title: Good Night at 4 pm?! Time Expressions in Different Cultures Authors: Vered Shwartz Published: 2022-05-01 Link: https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.224/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Abstract
We propose the task of culture-specific time expression grounding, i.e. mapping from expressions such as âmorningâ in English or âManhĂŁâ in Portuguese to specific hours in the day. We propose 3 language-agnostic methods, one of which achieves promising results on gold standard annotations that we collected for a small number of languages. We then apply this method to 27 languages and analyze the similarities across languages in the grounding of time expressions.