ISO-TimeML: An International Standard for Semantic Annotation

Pustejovsky James (1) , Kiyong Lee (2) , Harry Bunt (3) , Laurent Romary (4, 5)

1 Brandeis University
2 Department of Linguistics
3 Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
4 IDSL - Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
5 Inria Saclay - Ile de France

In this paper, we present ISO-TimeML, a revised and interoperable version of the temporal markup language, TimeML. We describe the changes and enrichments made, while framing the effort in a more general methodology of semantic annotation. In particular, we assume a principled distinction between the annotation of an expression and the representation which that annotation denotes. This involves not only the specification of an annotation language for a particular phenomenon, but also the development of a meta-model that allows one to interpret the syntactic expressions of the specification semantically.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Pustejovsky James, Kiyong Lee, Harry Bunt, Laurent Romary. ISO-TimeML: An International Standard for Semantic Annotation. LREC 2010, May 2010, La Valette, Malta. ⟨inria-00479847⟩