The Language of Time A Reader

by Mani, Inderjeet; Pustejovsky, James; Gaizauskas, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780199268542
• ISBN10: 0199268541
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted. Clear, self-contained editorial introductions to each area provide the necessary technical background for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Part I Tense, Aspect, and Event Structure	1	(158)
Introduction to Part I	3	(18)
Verbs and Times	21	(12)
Z. Vendler
The Syntax of Event Structure	33	(28)
James Pustejovsky
The Algebra of Events	61	(10)
Emmon Bach
The Tenses of Verbs	71	(8)
Hans Reichenbach
Tense Logic and the Logic of Earlier and Later	79	(14)
A. N. Prior
Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference	93	(22)
Mare Moens
Mark Steedman
Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications	115	(14)
Bonnie J. Dorr
Mari Broman Olsen
A Computational Model of the Semantics of Tense and Aspect	129	(30)
Rebecca J. Passonneau
Part II Temporal Reasoning	159	(158)
Introduction to Part II	161	(12)
A Temporal Logic for Reasoning about Processes and Plans	173	(44)
Drew McDermott
A Logic-based Calculus of Events	217	(24)
Robert Kowalski
Marek Sergot
Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy	241	(10)
Luca Chittaro
Carlo Combi
Towards a General Theory of Action and Time	251	(26)
James F. Allen
A Critical Examination of Allen's Theory of Action and Time	277	(24)
Antony Galton
Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events	301	(16)
Jerry Hobbs
James Pustejovsky
Part III Temporal Structure of Discourse	317	(168)
Introduction to Part III	319	(14)
The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?	333	(20)
David R. Dowty
Temporal Interpretation, Discourse Relations, and Commonsense Entailment	353	(44)
Alex Lascarides
Nicholas Asher
News Stories as Narratives	397	(14)
Allan Bell
Tense as Discourse Anaphor	411	(20)
Bonnie Lynn Webber
Tense Interpretation in the Context of Narrative	431	(12)
Fei Song
Robin Cohen
An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution	443	(18)
Janyce Wiebe
Tom O' Hara
Kenneth McKeever
Thorsten Ohrstrom-Sandgren
Tense Trees as the `Fine Structure' of Discourse	461	(14)
Chung Hee Hwang
Lenhart K. Schubert
Algorithms for Analysing the Temporal Structure of Discourse	475	(10)
Janet Hitzeman
Marc Moens
Claire Grover
Part IV Temporal Annotation	485	(100)
Introduction to Part IV	487	(18)
A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information	505	(8)
George Wilson
Inderjeet Mani
Beth Sundheim
Lisa Ferro
The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences	513	(10)
Graham Katz
Fabrizio Arosio
Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses	523	(10)
Elena Filatova
Eduard Hovy
From Temporal Expressions to Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging of News Messages	533	(12)
Frank Schilder
Christopher Habel
The Specification Language TimeML	545	(14)
James Pustejovsky
Robert Ingria
Roser Sauri
Jose Castano
Jessica Littman
Rob Gaizauskas
Andrea Setzer
Graham Katz
Inderjeet Mani
A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese	559	(16)
Wenjie Li
Kam-Fai Wong
Chunfa Yuan
Using Semantic Inferences for Temporal Annotation Comparison	575	(10)
Andrea Setzer
Robert Gaizauskas
Mark Hepple
Index	585