Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML

Damir Cavar, Ali Aljubailan, Ludovic Mompelat, Yuna Won, Billy Dickson, Matthew Fort, Andrew Davis, Soyoung Kim


Abstract
TIE-ML (Temporal Information Event Markup Language) first proposed by Cavar et al. (2021) provides a radically simplified temporal annotation schema for event sequencing and clause level temporal properties even in complex sentences. TIE-ML facilitates rapid annotation of essential tense features at the clause level by labeling simple or periphrastic tense properties, as well as scope relations between clauses, and temporal interpretation at the sentence level. This paper presents the first annotation samples and empirical results. The application of the TIE-ML strategy on the sentences in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al., 1993) and other non-English language data is discussed in detail. The motivation, insights, and future directions for TIE-ML are discussed, too. The aim is to develop a more efficient annotation strategy and a formalism for clause-level tense and aspect labeling, event sequencing, and tense scope relations that boosts the productivity of tense and event-level corpus annotation. The central goal is to facilitate the production of large data sets for machine learning and quantitative linguistic studies of intra- and cross-linguistic semantic properties of temporal and event logic.
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2022.isa-1.5
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Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Harry Bunt
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ISA
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European Language Resources Association
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33–41
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Damir Cavar, Ali Aljubailan, Ludovic Mompelat, Yuna Won, Billy Dickson, Matthew Fort, Andrew Davis, and Soyoung Kim. 2022. Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML. In Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation within LREC2022, pages 33–41, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Event Sequencing Annotation with TIE-ML (Cavar et al., ISA 2022)
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