Abstract
Work on the interpretation of temporal expressions in text has generally been pursued in one of two paradigms: the formal semantics approach, where an attempt is made to provide a well-grounded theoretical basis for the interpretation of these expressions, and the more pragmatically-focused approach represented by the development of the TIMEX2 standard, with its origins in work in information extraction. The former emphasises formal elegance and consistency; the latter emphasises broad coverage for practical applications. In this paper, we report on the development of a framework that attempts to integrate insights from both perspectives, with the aim of achieving broad coverage of the domain in a well-grounded manner from a formal perspective. We focus in particular on the development of a compact notation for representing the semantics of underspecified temporal expressions that can be used to provide component-level evaluation of systems that interpret such expressions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events, ARTE in conjunction with COLING/ACL 2006 |
| Editors | Branimir Boguraev, Rafael Munoz, James Pustejovsky |
| Place of Publication | Stroudsburg, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Pages | 9-16 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1932432817 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events - Sydney Duration: 23 Jul 2006 → 23 Jul 2006 |
Workshop
| Workshop | Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events |
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| City | Sydney |
| Period | 23/07/06 → 23/07/06 |