A Pilot Study on Acquiring Metric Temporal Constraints for Events

COLING ACL 2006 - ARTE Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-29

  Mani, Inderjeet ^a,b   Wellner, Ben ^a,b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANCHORINGS; PILOT STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RELATION; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL RELATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 85187552784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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