MemTimes: Temporal Scoping of Facts with Memory Network

This paper works on temporal scoping, i.e., adding time interval to facts in Knowledge Bases (KBs). The existing methods for temporal scope inference and extraction still suffer from low accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel neural model based on Memory Network to do temporal reasoning among sentences for the purpose of temporal scoping. We design proper ways to encode both semantic and temporal information contained in the mention set of each fact, which enables temporal reasoning with Memory Network. We also find ways to remove the effect brought by noisy sentences, which can further improve the robustness of our approach. The experiments show that this solution is highly effective for detecting temporal scope of facts.