The Language of Time: A Reader

by Inderjeet Mani (Editor), James Pustejovsky (Editor), Robert Gaizauskas (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199268542
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/11/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	604
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Georgetown University

Brandeis University

University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Part 1: Tense, Aspect, and Event Structure1. Verbs and Times, Z. Vendler2. The Syntax of Event Structure, James Pustejovsky3. The Algebra of Events, Emmon Bach4. The Tense of Verbs, Hans Reichenbach5. Tense Logic and the Logic of Earlier and Later, A.N. Prior6. Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference, Marc Moens and Mark Steedman7. Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications, Bonnie J. Door and Mari Broman Olsen8. A Computational Model of the Semantics of Tense and Aspect, Rebecca J. PassonneauPart II: Temporal Reasoning9. A Temporal Logic for Reasoning About Processes and Plans, Drew McDermot10. A Logic-Based Calculus of Events, Robert Kowalski and Marek Sergot11. Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy, Luca Chittaro and Carlo Combi12. Towards a General Theory of Action and Time, James F. Allen13. A Critical Examination of Allen's Theory of Action and Time, Antony Galton14. Annotating and Reasoning About Time and Events, Jerry Hobbs and James PustejovskyPart III: Temporal Structure of Discourse15. The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?, David R. Dowty16. Temporal Relations, Discourse Structure, and Commonsense Entailment, Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher17. News Stories as Narratives, Allan Bell18. Tense as Discourse Anaphor, Bonnie Lynn Webber19. Tense Interpretation in the Context of Narrative, Fei Song and Robin Cohen20. An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution, Janyce Wiebe, Tom O'Hara, Thorsten Ohrstrom-Sandgren, and K. J. McKeever21. Tense Trees as the Fine Structure of Discourse, Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert22. Algorithms for Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Discourse, Janet Hitzeman, Marc Moens, and Claire GroverPart IV: Temporal Annotation23. A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information, George Wilson, Inderjeet Mani, Beth Sundheim, and Lisa Ferro24. The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences, Graham Katz and Fabrizio Arosio25. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses, Elena Filatove and Eduard Hovy26. From Temporal Expressions to Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging of News Messages, Franck Schilder and Christopher Habel27. The Specification Language TimeML, James Pustejovsky, Robert Ingria, Roser Sauri, Jose Castano, Jessica Littman, Robert Gaizauskas, Andrea Setzer, Graham Katz, and Inderjeet Mani28. A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese, Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, and Chunfa Yuan29. Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison, Andrea Setzer, Robert Gaizauskas, and Mark HeppleIndex

Editorial 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."—Linguist List 16.3481

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