TimeBank 1.1 Browser

TimeBank can currently be browsed in the following ways:

1. View the list of articles. Each article can be viewed. All events, timexes and signals are displayed. The events, timexes and signals in the document are clickable (as long as you have Javascipt enabled). Clicking one of those tags leads you to an exhaustive list of occurrence for the instance. From the article view, you can launch another window with all links for the article. Click a link in that new window and see it highlighted in the article view.
2. View the list of events. Events can be sorted alphabetically or on frequency. For each event, all sentences in which it occurs can be retrieved, and for each occurrence it is possible to see the wider context (that is, the whole article, the events will be highlighted).
3. View the list of timexes. This is similar to viewing the events
4. View the list of signals. This is similar to viewing the events.
5. View all SLinks. The SLinks are indexed by their governing event and are presented in their local context, there is also a link to the article in which the SLink occurs.
6. Search for ALinks, SLinks or TLinks. Search parameters are relation type of link and the tokens of the two related elements. Events can also be restricted for class, tense, and aspect values, timexes can be restricted for type and value. The search will never return more than 250 matches (scrolling result pages need to be added).

There is also a page with general statistics.

The lists of articles and events are dynamic and taken from the database. The SLinks list is static html but quite recent (that is, updated for TimeBank 1.1 version 20040212). The statistics page is also static html, but created by a perl script that queries the database.

Some functionality that may be added: (i) dynamic pages for SLink browser, (ii) regular KWIC displays, (iii) display links from and to an event or timex, (iv) incorporate Tango browser as an applet, and (v) sorting of link tables.

The version of TimeBank in the database is TimeBank 1.1 version 20040212, with only a few modifications:

1. Three articles were ignored, they broke the perl extraction scripts.
2. Some <s> tags were added inside <leadpara>, <lp> and <headline> tags, these contained many events and the scripts only extracted TimeML tags from sentences.
3. A few dozen duplicate links were ignored.
4. A dozen TLinks were skipped because they were incomplete.
5. All data outside of <s> tags, except for timexes in the document head, are ignored.

Marc Verhagen, 2004/02/25