The language of time : a reader

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The language of time : a reader

edited by Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky, Robert Gaizauskas

Oxford University Press, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

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