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  <Title>The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences</Title>
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4 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described a simple and general technique for the annotation of relational temporal information in naturally occurring sentences. This annotation system is intended for use in the large-scale annotation of corpora. The annotations are provided with a model theoretic semantics. This semantics provides the basis for a content-based system for comparing and evaluating inter-annotator agreement.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Temporally annotated corpora such as those we are developing have a number of applications in both corpus-based theoretical work, and in practical applications. Of particular interest to us is the promise such annotated databases bring to the problem of extracting automatically lexical information about stereotypical ordering relations among events that are used by native speakers to interpret sentences temporally. We see this application as the main future research to be carried out.</Paragraph>
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