Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Chaining the sequence of events through awareness of their temporal relations is an important aspect of text un-derstanding. As a rule, text provides only partial knowledge of event unfolding however various types of additional sources(documents, personal diaries, etc.) provide an added knowledge to make chronology more precise.The paper argues the novel approach to automated retrieval of information on temporal relations between events marked inthe text. The data retrieved will provide additions to computer ontology which formally represents the actual events chronology.A system of linguistic algorithms for analyzing the contexts with specific verbal (or linguistic situations) inputs is suggestedwithin the present approach. We use syntactic graphs of the sentences and some grammatical characteristics of the wordsproduced by the system for the automatic syntactic analysis of Russian texts.