... more fine-grained event duration in-formation, viz., the most likely temporal units of event durations (cf. (Rieger 1974)’s ORDER-HOURS, ORDERDAYS). For each original event annotation, ... learning event durations. 3.1 Local Context For a given event, the local context features in-clude a window of n tokens to its left and n to-kens to its right, as well as the event itself, ... information in the event s syntactic envi-ronment is very important in deciding the dura-tions of events. For example, there is a difference in the durations of the “watch” events in the phrases...