The stated goal of TempEval-3 (UzZaman et al., 2013) was to focus on relation identification instead of classification, but the training and evaluation data followed the TimeBank approach where only a subset of event pairs were labeled.
many systems focused on classification, with the top system classifying pairs in only three syntactic constructions There were four or five people inside, and they just started firing Ms. Sanders was hit several times and was pronounced dead at the scene.