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Title: NarrativeTime: Dense Temporal Annotation on a Timeline
For the past decade, temporal annotation has been sparse: only a small portion of event pairs in a text was annotated. We present NarrativeTime, the first timeline-based annotation framework that achieves full coverage of all possible TLINKs. To compare with the previous SOTA in dense temporal annotation, we perform full re-annotation of the classic TimeBankDense corpus (American English), which shows comparable agreement with a signigicant increase in density. We contribute TimeBankNT corpus (with each text fully annotated by two expert annotators), extensive annotation guidelines, open-source tools for annotation and conversion to TimeML format, and baseline results.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1652742
PAR ID:
10594875
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ELRA and ICCL
Date Published:
ISBN:
9782493814104
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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