Open uhermjakob opened 10 years ago
At the AMR phone meeting we decided to annotate many temporal expressions using before/after:
More details and full examples: http://www.isi.edu/~ulf/amr/lib/popup/time-before-after.html
Kira points out that this representation is also closer to TIMEX.
Ulf will work on automatically converting old expressions of the form "temporal-quantity ago".
I have observed some inconsistencies for expressions such as
My proposal:
I will leave in 20 minutes. (This "in" has a different meaning from the "in" in "in September.")
Alternative 1 (annotated in analogy to 20 minutes ago):
Alternative 2 (more in sync with the rest of the proposal):
(If we go with alternative 2, we might want to change our annotation for ago as well, which could be done automatically.)
The police interviewed more than 100 witnesses in the 2 months after the murder.
The police identified the murderer 2 months after the murder.
We have visited Paris twice in the last three years.
Similarly: in the next three years (after ...); following three years; previous three years (in some cases leaving :op1 unspecified).
I have seen a number of annotations along the following style:
which seems somewhat unfortunate because last year is not really a unit of time and because a temporal-quantity is not a good fit for role :time.