time: any part of time
Scope
References to both instants and time intervals (including open ones) as well as discontinuous (scattered) regions of time are all annotated as time. References to all of time are annotated similarly. Statements referencing time are annotated regardless of their (im)precision, and both absolute and relative references to time are annotated.
Syntactic constraints
None. References to time are annotated without regard for the parts of
speech or other syntactic aspects of the marked text. In particular,
prepositions relating to the boundaries of regions of time such as
before
are included in time
annotations.
Examples
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today
Today's Internet industry T1 TIME 0 5 Today T2 ORGANIZATION 8 25 Internet industry -
recently
a software recently developed T1 PLAN 2 10 software T2 TIME 11 19 recently T3 PROCESS 20 29 developed -
2014
published in 2014 T1 PROCESS 0 9 published T2 TIME 13 17 2014 -
before 2014
babies born before 2014 T1 PERSON 0 6 babies T2 PROCESS 7 11 born T3 TIME 12 23 before 2014 -
every summer
visit Europe every summer T1 PROCESS 0 5 visit T2 LOCATION 6 12 Europe T3 TIME 13 25 every summer -
until recently
updated until recently T1 PROCESS 0 7 updated T2 TIME 8 22 until recently -
always
discourse coherence has always been used T1 DATA-ITEM 0 19 discourse coherence T2 TIME 24 30 always T3 PROCESS 36 40 used -
before
confirm before submitting T1 PROCESS 0 7 confirm T2 TIME 8 14 before T3 PROCESS 15 25 submitting
References
The semantic scope of time annotations matches that of temporal regionBFO (see Ontological basis: Top-level organization). Contrast process.