Description

TERNIP is a library which can recognise and normalise temporal expressions in text. A temporal expression is one such as '8th July 2010' - those which refer to some form of time (either a point in time, a duration, etc). The two functions TERNIP performs is first to identify these expressions in some text, and then to figure out the absolute date (as close as it can) that is refers to. TERNIP can handle a number of formats for representing documents and the metadata associated with a TIMEX. The most common form is TimeML.