This indicates that while our Recogniser % of query texts % of queries HeidelTime 2.90 1.97 NTE gazetteer 0.06 0.14 Table 3: Temporal intent indicator prevalence in a web search query log approaches do not identify too many non-timexes as being timexes, further work is called for at improving the range of named timexes they recognise.
the temporal expressions used in the TimeBank and AQUAINT corpora have a very small overlap with the named temporal expressions we identified.