A new version (1.0.3) of the WikiWars corpus is now available for download. The changes concern the extent annotation of four temporal expressions.
A new version (1.0.2) of the WikiWars corpus is now available for download. In this version we fixed the problem of incorrect encoding in two input files and we corrected a number of annotations; see the documentation distributed with the corpus for details.
WikiWars is a corpus of documents about military conflicts sourced from English Wikipedia. These documents contain 2,671 temporal expressions annotated with TIMEX2 (September 2005). For more information about the corpus go to www.timexportal.info/wikiwars; this page also has the link to download the corpus.
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We have extended TimexPortal with the News section, where we will inform about important updates to the site, but also about things happening in our research area, e.g. upcoming conferences, seminars, released corpora, tools and other resources. There are two important features:
The Temporal Information in Language group has been set up on Google Groups. Members of the new group, called Temporal-info, are interested in temporal information extraction, annotation of temporal information, tense and aspect in language, and any other aspect of temporal information. The description of the group states:
The group is primarily for linguists and computer scientists with an interest in working with time. Typical topics are event and timex extraction and description, TimeML, linguistic models of tense and aspect, temporal information over different languages, and temporal relations.
To register, visit http://groups.google.com/group/temporal-info.
