Challenge: Existing methods to extract temporal relations between events lack a principled method to incorporate external knowledge.
Approach: They propose a Bayesian-based method that models the temporal relation representations as latent variables and infers their values via Bayessian inference and translational functions.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing methods for event temporal relation extraction on three widely used datasets.

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