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Co-reference anaphoric relation

The same times are specified, or TUcurrent is more specific than TUprevious. The resolvent contains the union of the information in the two Temporal Units. (See rule A-co-reference in Section 5.3.)

For example (see also (1)-(2) of the corpus example in Figure 1):

Utterance Interpretation
How is Tuesday, January 30th?  
How about 2? 2pm, Tuesday 30 January