@inproceedings{tannier-muller-2008-evaluation,
    title = "Evaluation Metrics for Automatic Temporal Annotation of Texts",
    author = "Tannier, Xavier  and
      Muller, Philippe",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Tapias, Daniel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}`08)",
    month = may,
    year = "2008",
    address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/L08-1117/",
    abstract = "Recent years have seen increasing attention in temporal processing of texts as well as a lot of standardization effort of temporal information in natural language. A central part of this information lies in the temporal relations between events described in a text, when their precise times or dates are not known. Reliable human annotation of such information is difficult, and automatic comparisons must follow procedures beyond mere precision-recall of local pieces of information, since a coherent picture can only be considered at a global level. We address the problem of evaluation metrics of such information, aiming at fair comparisons between systems, by proposing some measures taking into account the globality of a text."
}