Temporal Text Ranking and Automatic Dating of Texts

Vlad Niculae, Marcos Zampieri, Liviu Dinu, Alina Maria Ciobanu
2014 Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, volume 2: Short Papers  
This paper presents a novel approach to the task of temporal text classification combining text ranking and probability for the automatic dating of historical texts. The method was applied to three historical corpora: an English, a Portuguese and a Romanian corpus. It obtained performance ranging from 83% to 93% accuracy, using a fully automated approach with very basic features.
doi:10.3115/v1/e14-4004 dblp:conf/eacl/NiculaeZDC14 fatcat:mkilx2zpqzbqzo7jjoacfmm6zm