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Markdown (Informal)
[Revisiting the ISO-TimeML abstract syntax](https://aclanthology.org/2025.isa-1.2/) (Bunt et al., ISA 2025)
ACL
- 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.