Annotating and measuring temporal relations in texts
Philippe Müller, Xavier Tannier · 2004
This paper focuses on the automated processing of temporal information in written texts, more specifically on relations between events introduced by verbs in finite clauses.While this problem has been largely studied from a theoretical point of view, it has very rarely been applied to real texts, if ever, with quantified results.The methodology required is still to be defined, even though there have been proposals in the strictly human annotation case.We propose here both a procedure to achieve this task and a way of measuring the results.We have been testing the feasibility of this on newswire articles, with promising results.