@inproceedings{discovery10065714, journal = {Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, year = {2015}, title = {UFPRSheffield: Contrasting Rule-based and Support Vector Machine Approaches to Time Expression Identification in Clinical TempEval}, series = {International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)}, month = {June}, editor = {Matt Post and Min-Yen Kan and Steven Bird}, pages = {835--839}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015)}, address = {Denver, Colorado}, note = {Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. Permission is granted to make copies for the purposes of teaching and research. Materials published in or after 2016 are licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.}, volume = {9}, url = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S15-2141}, author = {Tissot, H and Gorrell, G and Roberts, A and Derczynski, L and Fabro, MDD}, abstract = {We present two approaches to time expression identification, as entered in to SemEval2015 Task 6, Clinical TempEval. The first is a comprehensive rule-based approach that favoured recall, and which achieved the best recall for time expression identification in Clinical TempEval. The second is an SVM-based system built using readily available components, which was able to achieve a competitive F1 in a short development time. We discuss how the two approaches perform relative to each other, and how characteristics of the corpus affect the suitability of different approaches and their outcomes.} }