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An Annotation Scheme for Reichenbach's Verbal Tense Structure
In this paper we present RTMML, a markup language for the tenses of verbs and
temporal relations between verbs. There is a richness to tense in language that
is not fully captured by existing temporal annotation schemata. Following
Reichenbach we present an analysis of tense in terms of abstract time points,
with the aim of supporting automated processing of tense and temporal relations
in language. This allows for precise reasoning about tense in documents, and
the deduction of temporal relations between the times and verbal events in a
discourse. We define the syntax of RTMML, and demonstrate the markup in a range
of situations
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