{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-multi-axis-annotation-scheme-for-event","title":"A Multi-Axis Annotation Scheme for Event Temporal Relations","arxiv_id":"1804.07828","date":"2018-04-20","proceeding":"ACL 2018 7","authors":["Qiang Ning","Hao Wu","Dan Roth"],"abstract":"Existing temporal relation (TempRel) annotation schemes often have low\ninter-annotator agreements (IAA) even between experts, suggesting that the\ncurrent annotation task needs a better definition. This paper proposes a new\nmulti-axis modeling to better capture the temporal structure of events. In\naddition, we identify that event end-points are a major source of confusion in\nannotation, so we also propose to annotate TempRels based on start-points only.\nA pilot expert annotation using the proposed scheme shows significant\nimprovement in IAA from the conventional 60's to 80's (Cohen's Kappa). This\nbetter-defined annotation scheme further enables the use of crowdsourcing to\nalleviate the labor intensity for each annotator. We hope that this work can\nfoster more interesting studies towards event understanding.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07828v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.07828v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"matres","name":"MATRES","full_name":"Multi-Axis Temporal RElations for Start-points"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1804.07828","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}