This paper focuses on the automated processing of temporal information in written texts, more specifically on relations between events intro- duced by verbs in finite clauses. While this problem has been largely studied from a the- oretical point of view, it has very rarely been applied to real texts, if ever, with quantified re- sults. The methodology required is still to be defined, even though there have been proposals in the strictly human annotation case. We pro- pose here both a procedure to achieve this task and a way of measuring the results. We have been testing the feasibility of this on newswire articles, with promising results. 1 Annotating temporal information This paper focuses on the automated annotation of temporal information in texts, more specifically re- lations between...

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