The popularity of social media shatters the barrier for online users to create and share information at any place at any time. As a consequence, it has become increasing difficult to locate relevance information about an entity. Timeline has been proven to provide an effective and efficient access to understand an entity by displaying a list of episodes about the entity in chronological order. ...

Important elements for the success of the PROMETHEE methods have been the development of numerous extensions and interactive software. The purpose of the paper is to show the evolution of the PROMETHEE methods and of their software implementation over time. Starting with PROMCALC and the first visual sensitivity analysis tools (Walking Weights), we stress less known extensions of the methodolog...

In timeline extraction the goal is to order all the events in which a target entity is involved in a timeline. Due to the lack of explicitly annotated data, previous work is primarily rule-based and uses pre-trained temporal linking systems. In this work, we propose a distantly supervised approach by heuristically aligning timelines with documents. The noisy training data created allows us to l...