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I present a model for processing temporal information in Estonian natural language. I have built a tool to convert natural-language calendar expressions to semi-formalized semantic representation. I have further used this representation to construct formal SQL constraints, which can be enforced on any relational database. The model supports compound expressions (conjunctive and disjunctive), negation and exception expressions. The system is built to work on Oracle databases and is currently running on Oracle 10g with a PHP web interface.
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Treumuth, M. (2008). Normalization of Temporal Information in Estonian. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_28
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