... only this information to detect salient dates for the construction of event timelines.Other types of content are used for initial thematic document retrieval. Output is a list of dates, rankedfrom ... 730–739,Jeju, Republic of Korea, 8-14 July 2012.c2012 Association for Computational LinguisticsFinding Salient Dates for Building Thematic TimelinesR´emy KesslerLIMSI-CNRSOrsay, Francekessler@limsi.frXavier ... relative dates. However, absolute dates are relatively infrequent inour corpus (7%), so in order to broaden the cover-age for the detection of salient dates, we decided toconsider relative dates, ...