Overview

This reader collects and introduces important work 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.

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Author:   Inderjeet Mani ,  James Pustejovsky ,  Robert Gaizauskas
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.204kg
ISBN:  

9780199268535

ISBN 10:   0199268533
Pages:   602
Publication Date:   26 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

PART 1: TENSE, ASPECT, AND EVENT STRUCTURE; 1. Verbs and Times; 2. The Syntax of Event Structure; 3. The Algebra of Events; 4. The Tense of Verbs; 5. Tense Logic and the Logic of Earlier and Later; 6. Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference; 7. Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications; 8. A Computational Model of the Semantics of Tense and Aspect; PART II: TEMPORAL REASONING; 9. A Temporal Logic for Reasoning About Processes and Plans; 10. A Logic-Based Calculus of Events; 11. Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy; 12. Towards a General Theory of Action and Time; 13. A Critical Examination of Allen's Theory of Action and Time; 14. Annotating and Reasoning About Time and Events; PART III: TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF DISCOURSE; 15. The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?; 16. Temporal Relations, Discourse Structure, and Commonsense Entailment; 17. News Stories as Narratives; 18. Tense as Discourse Anaphor; 19. Tense Interpretation in the Context of Narrative; 20. An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution; 21. Tense Trees as the Fine Structure of Discourse; 22. Algorithms for Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Discourse; PART IV: TEMPORAL ANNOTATION; 23. A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information; 24. The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences; 25. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses; 26. From Temporal Expressions to Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging of News Messages; 27. The Specification Language TimeML; 28. A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese; 29. Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison; Index

Reviews

This book brings together a variety of approaches, theoretical as well practical, for dealing with time in natural language. The papers are among the most relevant. They have been arranged in an order which makes sense. The introductions are excellent... Compulsory reading for people working in the relevant disciplines. Anil Singh, Linguist List

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