Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events

This state-of-the-art survey comprises a selection of the material presented at the International Dagstuhl Seminar on Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning about Time and Events, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in April 2005. The seminar centered around an emerging de facto standard for time and event annotation: TimeML. It features nine papers that detail current research and discuss open problems concerning annotation, temporal reasoning, and event identification.

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Annotating, Extracting and Reasoning About Time and Events.- Drawing TimeML Relations with TBox.- Text Type and the Position of a Temporal Adverbial Within the Sentence.- Effective Use of TimeBank for TimeML Analysis.- Event Extraction and Temporal Reasoning in Legal Documents.- Computational Treatment of Temporal Notions: The CTTN-System.- Towards a Denotational Semantics for TimeML.- Arguments in TimeML: Events and Entities.- Chronoscopes: A Theory of Underspecified Temporal Representations.