14th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'07)
Automatic Analysis of Temporal Relations within a Discourse
Alicante, Spain
June 28-June 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2836-8
In this paper we present a rule-based system of automatic analysis of temporal relations within a discourse for Czech. The core algorithm of the system is the so-called "recursive temporal property" (RTP) of Czech that predicts relative ordering relations between finite verbs in a sentence based on the information provided only by the grammar. We correct and extend the RTP by various linguistically-oriented rules. Some of these rules represent a contribution to the existing grammar theory of temporal relations in Czech. The resulting system yields F-measure of 57.77-65.29.