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From: A framework for enhancing spatial and temporal granularity in report-based health surveillance systems

Figure 2

Text capture of spatiotemporal zoning in a news report. The example was captured from news published in WHO website. Text is marked-up with spatiotemporal zone according to the annotation guideline. The first zone is report zone consists of one event-predicate, which is "reported". This event-predicate event occurred in Yei County, Central Equatorial, in Sudan from 1 September to 8 November 2006. These spatial and temporal information are represented in the zone's Location_ID, STime, and ETime attributes, respectively. The second zone also consists of one event-predicate, which is crossed. This event-predicate is annotated as occurred in Yei County, in the last week of October 2006, according to information available in the news report.

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