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Temporal Annotation and Representation
Author(s) -
Verhagen Marc,
Moszkowicz Jessica L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00116.x
Subject(s) - annotation , temporal annotation , computer science , natural language processing , parsing , interpretation (philosophy) , representation (politics) , artificial intelligence , semantics (computer science) , linguistics , natural language , language technology , programming language , philosophy , comprehension approach , politics , political science , law
The goal of temporal annotation is to mark up all elements of a text that are relevant to the temporal interpretation of that text. As such, temporal annotation reveals part of the semantics of a text. We describe recent approaches to temporal annotation, focusing on the recently developed annotation language TimeML. In addition, we describe a couple of systems aimed at temporally parsing texts. We motivate the use of temporal annotation from a question answering viewpoint and describe some earlier insights from theoretical linguistics on what the temporal properties of language constructs are.