Hence, unlike syntactic dependencies and predicateargument relations through which we can identify intra-sentential temporal relations, discourse relations can potentially be exploited to discover both inter-sentential and intra-sentential temporal relations.
no recent work has attempted to use discourse relations for temporal relation clas-(6) { Arg1 Hewlett-Packard Co. said it raised its stake in Octel Communications Corp. to 8.5% of the common shares outstanding.