Challenge: Existing work on temporal sentence grounding rely on expensive video-query paired annotations . despite this, there are no ground-truth annotations in the current work .
Approach: They propose to use paired video-query and segment boundary annotations to generate temporal sentence grounding without training.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing unsupervised methods and beats supervised ones on two challenging datasets.

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