ISO 24617-1:2012 PDF

Language resource management — Semantic annotation framework (SemAF) — Part 1: Time and events (SemAF-Time, ISO-TimeML)

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ISO 24617-1:2012

Language resource management — Semantic annotation framework (SemAF) — Part 1: Time and events (SemAF-Time, ISO-TimeML)

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Number of pages:: 163
Publication date:: January 16, 2012
Edition:: ISO IS 24617 edition 1 version 1
ICS:: 01.020

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Temporal information in natural language texts is an increasingly important component to the understanding of those texts. ISO 24617-1:2012, SemAF-Time, specifies a formalized XML-based markup language called ISO-TimeML, with a systematic way to extract and represent temporal information, as well as to facilitate the exchange of temporal information, both between operational language processing systems and between different temporal representation schemes. The use of guidelines for temporal annotation has been fully attested with examples from the TimeBank corpus, a collection of 183 documents that have been annotated by TimeML before the current version of ISO-TimeML was formulated.

Technical details

Technical committee: ISO/TC 37/SC 4 - Language resource management
SKU: ISO 24617-1:2012

Abstract

Overview

ISO 24617-1:2012 - SemAF‑Time (ISO‑TimeML) defines a standardized, XML‑based semantic annotation framework for representing temporal information (times and events) in natural language texts. The standard specifies an abstract metamodel and a concrete XML syntax (ISO‑TimeML) to extract, encode and exchange temporal expressions, events and temporal relations between them. The specification is grounded in existing practice (e.g., the TimeBank corpus of 183 TimeML‑annotated documents) and supports interoperable temporal annotation across language processing tools.

Key technical topics and requirements

ISO‑TimeML concrete syntax: a formal XML representation for tagging temporal expressions and events, designed for stand‑off annotation and machine interoperability.
Core elements: , , `` for marking events, time expressions and temporal signals.
Link elements: , , , for encoding temporal, subordinating, aspectual and modal relations between annotated items.
Attributes and metadata: tags for certainty, confidence and linguistic features (tense, aspect, polarity) to support richer semantic interpretation.
Semantics: interval‑based and event‑based semantic models, handling tense, aspect and formal temporal relations to enable reasoning about ordering and duration.
Normative and informative annexes: core annotation guidelines, fully annotated examples (including Chinese, Italian, Korean), tool references (ALEMBIC, CALLISTO, TANGO, TARSQI, IBM TimeML annotator) and a formal specification of attribute classes and elements.

Practical applications and who uses it

ISO 24617-1 is targeted at professionals and projects that need reliable, interoperable temporal annotation:

NLP researchers and computational linguists developing temporal relation extraction, timeline construction and event ordering systems.
Annotation teams and corpus developers creating training data (TimeBank‑style corpora) for machine learning and evaluation.
Software developers and tool integrators implementing temporal parsers, knowledge extraction pipelines or question‑answering engines that require standard temporal markup.
Enterprises in domains such as news analytics, legal and clinical text mining, historical research and any application needing precise event-time interpretation.

Benefits include consistent annotations across tools, improved temporal reasoning, and simpler data exchange between systems using the ISO‑TimeML format.

Related standards and keywords

Part of the ISO Semantic Annotation Framework (SemAF) series.
Relevant keywords: ISO 24617-1, SemAF-Time, ISO‑TimeML, TimeML, temporal annotation, temporal relations, TIMEX3, EVENT, TLINK, NLP, TimeBank, XML-based markup.

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Abstract

Overview

Key technical topics and requirements

ISO‑TimeML concrete syntax: a formal XML representation for tagging temporal expressions and events, designed for stand‑off annotation and machine interoperability.
Core elements: , , `` for marking events, time expressions and temporal signals.
Link elements: , , , for encoding temporal, subordinating, aspectual and modal relations between annotated items.
Attributes and metadata: tags for certainty, confidence and linguistic features (tense, aspect, polarity) to support richer semantic interpretation.
Semantics: interval‑based and event‑based semantic models, handling tense, aspect and formal temporal relations to enable reasoning about ordering and duration.
Normative and informative annexes: core annotation guidelines, fully annotated examples (including Chinese, Italian, Korean), tool references (ALEMBIC, CALLISTO, TANGO, TARSQI, IBM TimeML annotator) and a formal specification of attribute classes and elements.

Practical applications and who uses it

ISO 24617-1 is targeted at professionals and projects that need reliable, interoperable temporal annotation:

NLP researchers and computational linguists developing temporal relation extraction, timeline construction and event ordering systems.
Annotation teams and corpus developers creating training data (TimeBank‑style corpora) for machine learning and evaluation.
Software developers and tool integrators implementing temporal parsers, knowledge extraction pipelines or question‑answering engines that require standard temporal markup.
Enterprises in domains such as news analytics, legal and clinical text mining, historical research and any application needing precise event-time interpretation.

Benefits include consistent annotations across tools, improved temporal reasoning, and simpler data exchange between systems using the ISO‑TimeML format.

Related standards and keywords

Part of the ISO Semantic Annotation Framework (SemAF) series.
Relevant keywords: ISO 24617-1, SemAF-Time, ISO‑TimeML, TimeML, temporal annotation, temporal relations, TIMEX3, EVENT, TLINK, NLP, TimeBank, XML-based markup.

ISO 24617-1:2012 PDF

Technical details

Abstract

Overview

Key technical topics and requirements

Practical applications and who uses it

Related standards and keywords

Related standards

Abstract

Overview

Key technical topics and requirements

Practical applications and who uses it

Related standards and keywords

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