how tid values are set in timeml Specification Language?

Question

In timeml Specification Language there is a value for every timex tag named tid . like:

bad financial <TIMEX3 tid="t83" type="DURATION" value="P1W">week</TIMEX3> for Asia

how they should initialized at starting of a text. Do tid tags follow any pattern?

there is no explanation about this in it's Official Site .

the starting value matters because when evaluating a system against TimeBank , the official script uses those tid for making an evaluation.

UPDATE: I use Evaluation Toolkit introduced in here and TimeBank data set i mentioned above . tid that my code is generating starts with 1 but in TimeBank it starts in different numbers like 218, i cant undrestand it's numbering logic.how can i evaluate output when tid s are different.

Answer 1

According to timeml guidelines: http://www.timeml.org/tempeval2/tempeval2-trial/guidelines/timex3guidelines-072009.pdf :

The attribute tid [..] is automatically assigned by the annotation tool.

So the evaluation you're talking about is done by custom calculation.

Do you want to share some evaluation examples, in order to see if they share some kind of logic that you can work on?