This paper presents the results of an em- pirical investigation of temporal reference resolution in scheduling dialogs. The algo- rithm adopted is primarily a linear-recency based approach that does not include a model of global focus. A fully automatic system has been developed and evaluated on unseen test data with good results. This paper presents the results of an intercoder reliability study, a model of temporal refer- ence resolution that supports linear recency and has very good coverage, the results of the system evaluated on unseen test data, and a detailed analysis of the dialogs as- sessing the viability of the approach.

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