MATRES

This is the Multi-Axis Temporal RElations for Start-points (i.e., MATRES) dataset, collected via the annotation scheme proposed in

@inproceedings{NingWuRo18,
    author = {Qiang Ning and Hao Wu and Dan Roth},
    title = {A Multi-Axis Annotation Scheme for Event Temporal Relations},
    booktitle = {ACL},
    month = {7},
    year = {2018},
    url = "http://cogcomp.org/papers/NingWuRo18.pdf",
}

The dataset is formatted as follows.

docid, verb1, verb2, eiid1, eiid2, relation

The eiids are the same with those in TempEval3. Although in the paper above we had only annotated TimeBank-Dense (36 documents), we later extended to the entire TempEval3 dataset. According to TempEval3, the dataset is split into three parts: TimeBank, AQUAINT, and Platinum, each of which has a separate file in this repo.

A few remarks:

MATRES is only for verb events, so those nominal events in the original TempEval3 won’t appear in MATRES.
In this repo, we only include relations among those events that are on the main-axis. Please refer to the paper for the definition of main-axis.
For other axes and relations, please refer to this readme file.