Fables-DTR: A Corpus of Fables Annotated for Discourse and Temporal Relations

Purificação Silvano, António Leal, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Aleksandra Tomaszewska, Joana Gomes, Luís Filipe Cunha, Evelin Amorim, Martyna Lewandowska, Anna Śliwicka, Alípio Jorge


Abstract
This paper presents Fables-DTR, a corpus of Aesop’s fables annotated for discourse and temporal relations, designed to explore how event sequencing and aspectual features and discourse relations interact. Building on the ISO 24617 Semantic Annotation Framework, integrating Part 1 (Time and Events) and Part 8 (Discourse Relations), the resource provides a unified representation of discourse structure and temporal and aspectual features. The corpus comprises 15 fables in English, automatically translated into European Portuguese and Polish (45 texts in total), with all translations manually validated by native linguists to preserve semantic and discourse features. Each fable is annotated in two layers: (i) for discourse relations, argument roles, and signals; (ii) for temporal relations, and event attributes, such as Tense, Aspect, Polarity. The resulting dataset provides relevant information about the association between discourse relations and their temporal and aspectual features. Fables-DTR contributes both a valuable resource for cross-linguistic and narrative discourse analysis and empirical evidence for integrating ISO standards in multilayer annotation. It also provides a foundation for computational applications in discourse parsing, event ordering, and implicit relation detection.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.145
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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1856–1868
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-145
DOI:
10.63317/5buqgd55dy3e
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Purificação Silvano, António Leal, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Aleksandra Tomaszewska, Joana Gomes, Luís Filipe Cunha, Evelin Amorim, Martyna Lewandowska, Anna Śliwicka, and Alípio Jorge. 2026. Fables-DTR: A Corpus of Fables Annotated for Discourse and Temporal Relations. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1856–1868, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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Fables-DTR: A Corpus of Fables Annotated for Discourse and Temporal Relations (Silvano et al., LREC 2026)
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