Add support for Temporal Relations (To be updated)

[drishtiramesh]

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Events are linked together through a variety of temporal structures. The temporal relations are expressed both explicitly, through words like after, and implicitly through inference. Extracting these sorts of temporal structures is crucial for an understanding of the text. Machine reasoning requires an explicit representation of the temporal structure. Such an explicit representation can be formed by identifying specific words or phrases as the event anchors of the structure, and then drawing explicit temporal relation links between the various events. Examples are given below:

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CTakes used SVM-based temporal relation annotators which achieves an F-score of 0.589. State-of-the-art results for event-time relations were achieved with our neural network approaches. All the annotators were trained and tested on colon cancer notes from the THYME data set. Similar module is expected by using any reliable algorithm. Please find some resources to refer down below.

Additional Resources

1. Apache CTakes Summary PPT
2. Temporal Relations Module in CTakes
3. Temporal Relations CTakes Github
4. Savova, Guergana et al. “Towards temporal relation discovery from the clinical narrative.” AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium vol. 2009 568-72. 14 Nov. 2009
5. Lin, Chen et al. “Multilayered temporal modeling for the clinical domain.” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA vol. 23,2 (2016): 387-95. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocv113