Title
TimeML: Robust Specification of Event and Temporal Expressions in Text
Abstract
In this paper we provide a description of TimeML, a rich specification language for event and temporal expressions in natural language text, developed in the context of the AQUAINT program on Question Answering Systems. Unlike most previous work on event annotation, TimeML captures three distinct phenomena in temporal markup: (1) it systematically anchors event predicates to a broad range of temporally denotating expressions; (2) it orders event expressions in text relative to one another, both intrasententially and in discourse; and (3) it allows for a delayed (underspecified) interpretation of partially determined temporal expressions. We demonstrate the expressiveness of TimeML for a broad range of syntactic and semantic contexts, including aspectual predication, modal subordination, and an initial treatment of lexical and constructional causation in text.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
New Directions in Question Answering
specification language,natural language,question answering system
Field
DocType
Citations 
Specification language,TimeML,Programming language,Question answering,Expression (mathematics),Temporal annotation,Computer science,Natural language,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Syntax,Markup language
Conference
298
PageRank 
References 
Authors
19.60
5
8
Search Limit
100298
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James Pustejovsky12523334.15
José M. Castaño243334.23
Robert Ingria3654273.34
Roser Sauri458937.43
Robert J. Gaizauskas5985107.95
Andrea Setzer646733.93
Graham Katz758941.68
Dragomir Radev85167374.13