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<Paper uid="P06-1050">
  <Title>Learning Event Durations from Event Descriptions</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have constructed a corpus of news articles in which events are annotated for estimated bounds on their duration. Here we describe a method for measuring inter-annotator agreement for these event duration distributions. We then show that machine learning techniques applied to this data yield coarse-grained event duration information, considerably outperforming a baseline and approaching human performance.</Paragraph>
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