Why Don't Romanians Have a Five O'clock Tea, Nor Halloween, But Have a Kind of Valentines Day?

Recently the focus on temporal information in NLP applications has increased. Based on general temporal theories, annotations and standards, the paper presents the steps performed towards obtaining a parallel English-Romanian corpus, with the temporal information marked in both languages. The automatic import from English to Romanian of the TimeML markup has a success rate of 96.53%. The paper analyzes the main situations that appeared during the automatic import: perfect or impossible transfer, transfer with amendments or for the language specific phenomena. This corpus study permits to decide how import techniques can be used on the temporal domain.

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