We describe the TEMANTEX annotation scheme for temporal expressions and other lexical indicators of temporality and we analyze a first annotation experience. TEMANTEX is mainly a revision of the markup language TIMEX3, but with some additions and a different treatment for relative expressions. Our alternative proposal is justified for two reasons. First, our system aims to cover other temporality-related lexical elements by defining annotations for what we call temporal indicators, which do not

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... have an equivalent in the TimeML system. Second, regarding temporal expressions, our scheme has relevant differences that improve the annotation process and the interpretation potential. A first task of corpus annotation on a set of 2.300 words, comprising 33 temporal expressions and 35 temporal indicators, showed encouraging results.