🎯 Game Overview
The Temporal Game is about understanding and annotating temporal relations between entities in text. The goal is to correctly identify how different entities relate to each other in time by classifying the relation between their start and end points.
Objective: Annotate temporal relations between entity endpoints to create a coherent timeline without contradictions.
🖥️ Interface
1. Text
The top section shows a text passage with highlighted entities. Each entity represents an event or temporal expression that has a beginning and end in time.
2. Temporal Board
Below the text, you'll see a temporal board. This board represents all possible relations between the start and end points of entities tagged in the text.
Grid Structure:
- Rows & Columns: Each represents an entity endpoint: start or end. The start of an entity is prepended with a s and the end with an e. The color in the row and column match the one in the tagged text.
- Cells: When clicking on a cell of the board a pop will show up to select the relation between two endpoints.
⏰ Temporal Relations
There are four types of temporal relations you can assign:
Before
A happens before B.
After
A happens after B.
Equal
A and B happen at the same time.
Unknown
The relation cannot be determined from the text.
🎮 How to Play
Read the Text
Read the passage and identify the highlighted temporal entities.
Click a Cell
Click on any cell in the temporal board to select the relation between two endpoints you want to annotate.
Choose a Relation
Select the appropriate temporal relation (<, >, =, or -) from the popup.
Continue Annotating
Repeat until you've made all the annotations you want, or until the game ends.
🏆 Game End
Game Over Conditions
- ✅ Success: You win the game if you produce a timeline that is coherent.
- ❌ Temporal incoherent: The game ends if you create an incoherent timeline. For instance, if A before B, B before C, but C before A.
💡 Strategy Tips
Read Carefully: Pay attention to temporal indicators like "before", "after", "during", "while", etc.
Use Undo: Made a mistake? Use the Undo button to reverse your last action.
When Uncertain: Use the "Unknown" (-) relation when the text doesn't provide clear temporal information.
Start Simple: Begin with 2 entities and work your way up to more complex scenarios.
Ready to Play? 🚀
Now that you understand the rules, it's time to put your temporal reasoning skills to the test!
Start Playing