Extracting Spatial and Temporal Information from Natural Language

author1 address1 address1 address1 email: email1 Abstract — Dealing with temporal and location information in text is difficult but is highly desirable for Intelligence tasks. We present in this paper a system that analyzes natural language documents and focuses on temporal and location information. We overview the system, our approach to sentence analysis, and our framework for dealing with information on time and (geographic) location. Our classification of temporal and location expressions allows us to develop, in an organized manner, sets of patterns to locate these expressions, and is the basis for normalization procedures for said expressions. I