Information Extraction: Relations, Events, and Time

21.6 TimeBank

1. What is TimeBank, and what annotation language does it use?
   A corpus of American English annotated with temporal information using TimeML, based on Allen’s interval algebra: EVENT (events and states), TIMEX3 (time expressions) and LINK objects.
   • Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft, ch. 21, §21.6, p. 489
2. What kinds of links does TimeML use?
   TLINKs for the 13 Allen temporal relations (event–event, event–time, time–time), ALINKs for aspectual relations between events and subevents, and SLINKs for subordination relations like modal or factive contexts.
   • Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3rd ed. draft, ch. 21, §21.6, p. 489