In order to separate the evaluation of recognition and normalisation performance, and allow the use of non-integrated timex recognisers, it would be useful to have a "normalise only" module, that uses existing TIMEX3/TIMEX2 annotation boundaries and only provides attributes for those elements.
If you pass -r none on the command line to annotate_timex, you can get this functionality already (and when using it as a Python library, just don't make the call to the recogniser)
In order to separate the evaluation of recognition and normalisation performance, and allow the use of non-integrated timex recognisers, it would be useful to have a "normalise only" module, that uses existing TIMEX3/TIMEX2 annotation boundaries and only provides attributes for those elements.