French TimeBank: An ISO-TimeML Annotated Reference Corpus

André Bittar (1) , Pascal Amsili (2) , Pascal Denis (1) , Laurence Danlos (1)

1 ALPAGE - Analyse Linguistique Profonde à Grande Echelle ; Large-scale deep linguistic processing
2 LLF UMR7110 - Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle

This article presents the main points in the creation of the French TimeBank (Bittar, 2010), a reference corpus annotated according to the ISO-TimeML standard for temporal annotation. A number of improvements were made to the markup language to deal with linguistic phenomena not yet covered by ISO-TimeML, including cross-language modifications and others specific to French. An automatic preannotation system was used to speed up the annotation process. A preliminary evaluation of the methodology adopted for this project yields positive results in terms of data quality and annotation time.

Mots clés: C-ACTI

Domaines: Linguistique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

André Bittar, Pascal Amsili, Pascal Denis, Laurence Danlos. French TimeBank: An ISO-TimeML Annotated Reference Corpus. ACL 2011 - 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Jun 2011, Portland, Oregon, United States. pp.130-134. ⟨halshs-00751076⟩