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Abbreviations

1.
SpanUtt = Spanish Utterance; a list of the Spanish words occurring in a sentence. For instance: ``cinco de marzo no'' would be represented as [cinco,de,marzo,no].
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TU = Temporal Unit.
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ILT = A structured representation of the meaning of an SpanUtt, possibly containing a TU. The ILT representation is defined by the Enthusiast project (Levin et al. 1995).

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DE = Discourse Entity; Composed of a SpanUtt and an ILT.
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FL = Focus List (ordered list of DE's).
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RF = Reference Frame; a Temporal Unit used as a temporal frame of reference.
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CF = Certainty Factor.

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timeValue = One of {day, week, weekend, month, year}.