Revisiting the ISO-TimeML abstract syntax

Harry Bunt, Alex Fang, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, Purificação Silvano, James Pustejovsky


Abstract
This paper describes some of the ongoing work within the ISO preliminary work item PWI 254617-17, ‘Interlinking of annotations’. This PWI investigates the possibilities and problems of combining annotations made with different annotation schemes. using the ‘interlinking’ approach (Bunt, 2024) applied to different parts of the multi-part standard ISO 24617, ‘Semantic annotation framework’. This paper focuses on the combination of ISO-TimeML and QuantML at the level of abstract syntax. A new version is defined for the ISO-TimeML abstract syntax specification and how it relates to the concrete (XML-based) syntax as a basis for this combination. As a side-effect, some issues in the use of ISO-TimeML come to light that could be relevant for a possible future second edition of this standard.
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2025.isa-1.2
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Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21)
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September
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2025
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Düsseldorf, Germany
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Bunt Harry
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ISA | WS
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12–20
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Harry Bunt, Alex Fang, Kiyong Lee, Volha Petukhova, Purificação Silvano, and James Pustejovsky. 2025. Revisiting the ISO-TimeML abstract syntax. In Proceedings of the 21st Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-21), pages 12–20, Düsseldorf, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Revisiting the ISO-TimeML abstract syntax (Bunt et al., ISA 2025)
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