Adapting timeML to basque: Event annotation

Abstract

In this paper we present an event annotation effort following EusTimeML, a temporal mark-up language for Basque based on TimeML. For this, we first describe events and their main ontological and grammatical features. We base our analysis on Basque grammars and TimeML mark-up language classification of events. Annotation guidelines have been created to address the event information annotation for Basque and an annotation experiment has been conducted. A first round has served to evaluate the preliminary guidelines and decisions on event annotation have been taken according to annotations and inter-annotator agreement results. Then a guideline tuning period has followed. In the second round, we have created a manually-annotated gold standard corpus for event annotation in Basque. Event analysis and annotation experiment are part of a complete temporal information analysis and corpus creation work.