# temporal_keys - attach, serialize, parse and consume temporal keys # # Implements the key schema from "The Temporal Context Gap" (position paper draft, # Sept 2026, section 5.2): # # from __future__ import annotations from dataclasses import dataclass, field import re __version__ = "0.1.0" def _int_or_none(s): try: return int(s) except (TypeError, ValueError): return None @dataclass class DriftAnnotation: """One flagged drifting term, its era range, and (optionally) the era-local sense.""" term: str year_start: int | None = None year_end: int | None = None sense: str | None = None def encode(self): parts = [self.term.replace(":", "").replace("|", "")] if self.year_start is not None or self.year_end is not None: parts.append( ("" if self.year_start is None else str(self.year_start)) + "-" + ("" if self.year_end is None else str(self.year_end)) ) if self.sense is not None: parts.append(self.sense.replace(":", "").replace("|", "")) return ":".join(parts) @classmethod def decode(cls, s): parts = s.split(":") if len(parts) == 1: return cls(term=parts[0]) a, b = parts[1].split("-", 1) return cls( term=parts[0], year_start=_int_or_none(a), year_end=_int_or_none(b), sense=parts[2] if len(parts) > 2 else None, ) @dataclass class TemporalKey: """Temporal key attached to one training instance (paper section 5.2). All fields are optional; presence/absence is itself informative. """ time: str | None = None # document creation time (ISO date or ISO month) fetch: str | None = None # crawl / collection time src: str | None = None # source class, e.g. "news.wire" region: str | None = None # locale, e.g. "uk" register: str | None = None # journalistic / personal / legal / fiction ... drift: list = field(default_factory=list) selfanchor: float | None = None # density of internal temporal anchoring (paper section 4, Level 1) def serialize(self): attrs = [] for name in ("time", "fetch", "src", "region", "register"): v = getattr(self, name) if v is not None: attrs.append(f"{name}={_sanitize(v)}") if self.drift: attrs.append("drift=\"" + "|".join(a.encode() for a in self.drift) + "\"") if self.selfanchor is not None: attrs.append(f"selfanchor={self.selfanchor:.2f}") return "" def prefix(self): """K1 regime: prepend the serialized key to the training instance.""" return self.serialize() + "\n" @classmethod def parse(cls, s): m = re.fullmatch(r"\s*\s*", s, flags=re.DOTALL) if not m: raise ValueError(f"not a serialized TemporalKey: {s!r}") attrs = _tokenize_attrs(m.group(1)) drift = [] if "drift" in attrs: raw = attrs["drift"].strip('"') drift = [DriftAnnotation.decode(tok) for tok in raw.split("|") if tok] return cls( time=attrs.get("time"), fetch=attrs.get("fetch"), src=attrs.get("src"), region=attrs.get("region"), register=attrs.get("register"), drift=drift, selfanchor=float(attrs["selfanchor"]) if "selfanchor" in attrs else None, ) def mask(self, rng, p=0.15): """K2 regime: return a copy with each field independently dropped with probability p. Training the model to infer masked fields yields an implicit era-classifier; the inferred key doubles as a measurement of surviving temporal signal (paper section 5.3, K2; experiment E2). """ masked = TemporalKey( time=self.time, fetch=self.fetch, src=self.src, region=self.region, register=self.register, drift=list(self.drift), selfanchor=self.selfanchor, ) if rng.random() < p: masked.time = None if rng.random() < p: masked.fetch = None if rng.random() < p: masked.src = None if rng.random() < p: masked.region = None if rng.random() < p: masked.register = None if rng.random() < p: masked.selfanchor = None if rng.random() < p: masked.drift = [] return masked def _sanitize(v): return str(v).replace(" ", "_").replace('"', "").replace("=", "-") def _tokenize_attrs(s): out = {} i = 0 while i < len(s): while i < len(s) and s[i] == " ": i += 1 eq = s.find("=", i) if eq == -1: break name = s[i:eq] if s[eq + 1:eq + 2] == '"': close = s.find('"', eq + 2) val = s[eq + 2:close] i = close + 1 else: j = s.find(" ", eq + 1) if j == -1: j = len(s) val = s[eq + 1:j] i = j out[name] = val return out def load_lsc_drift_data(path): """Load drift data in a SemEval-2020-Task-1-style JSON layout: [{"term": "cell", "senses": [{"year_start": 1850, "year_end": 1970, "sense": "prison-room"}, {"year_start": 1971, "year_end": null, "sense": "biological-unit"}]}] Any file matching that layout works regardless of its origin; the pipeline never assumes a specific detector produced it. """ import json with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f: records = json.load(f) for rec in records: assert "term" in rec and "senses" in rec, f"bad LSC record: {rec!r}" for sense in rec["senses"]: assert "year_start" in sense and "year_end" in sense, f"bad sense: {sense!r}" return records def annotate_drift(text, lsc_records, doc_year, max_per_doc=8): """Flag LSC-tracked terms found in `text`, with the sense local to `doc_year`. If doc_year is None, every sense of every matched term is returned. """ found = [] lowered = text.lower() for rec in lsc_records: term = rec["term"] if not re.search(r"\b" + re.escape(term.lower()) + r"\b", lowered): continue for sense in rec["senses"]: if doc_year is None or _covers(sense, doc_year): found.append( DriftAnnotation( term=term, year_start=sense["year_start"], year_end=sense["year_end"], sense=sense.get("sense"), ) ) if len(found) >= max_per_doc: break return found def _covers(sense, year): a = sense["year_start"] b = sense["year_end"] return (a is None or year >= a) and (b is None or year <= b) _SELFANCHOR_PATTERNS = [ re.compile(r"\b(1[5-9]|20)\d{2}\b"), re.compile( r"\b(january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|september|october|" r"november|december)\s+(1[5-9]|20)\d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE, ), re.compile(r"\bas of\s+(1[5-9]|20)\d{2}\b", re.IGNORECASE), ] def selfanchor_density(text, words_per_unit=100): """Self-anchoring expressions per 100 words. Higher values mean the text carries its own temporal anchor and is trustworthy without an external key (paper section 4, Level 1). """ words = text.split() if not words: return 0.0 n_hits = sum(len(p.findall(text)) for p in _SELFANCHOR_PATTERNS) return round(100.0 * n_hits / max(1, len(words)), 3) def make_key(text, lsc_records=None, doc_year=None, **scalar_fields): """Convenience constructor: scalar fields + drift annotation + selfanchor.""" return TemporalKey( drift=annotate_drift(text, lsc_records or [], doc_year) if lsc_records else [], selfanchor=selfanchor_density(text), **scalar_fields, )