The language of time : a reader / edited by Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky, Robert Gaizauskas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Tense, Aspect, and Event Structure -- 1. Verbs and Times / Z. Vendler -- 2. The Syntax of Event Structure / James Pustejovsky -- 3. The Algebra of Events / Emmon Bach -- 4. The Tense of Verbs / Hans Reichenbach -- 5. Tense Logic and the Logic of Earlier and Later / A.N. Prior -- 6. Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference / Marc Moens and Mark Steedman -- 7. Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications / Bonnie J. Door and Mari Broman Olsen -- 8. A Computational Model of the Semantics of Tense and Aspect / Rebecca J. Passonneau -- Part II. Temporal Reasoning -- 9. A Temporal Logic for Reasoning About Processes and Plans / Drew McDermot -- 10. A Logic-Based Calculus of Events / Robert Kowalski and Marek Sergot -- 11. Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy / Luca Chittaro and Carlo Combi -- 12. Towards a General Theory of Action and Time / James F. Allen -- 13. A Critical Examination of Allen's Theory of Action and Time / Antony Galton -- 14. Annotating and Reasoning About Time and Events / Jerry Hobbs and James Pustejovsky -- Part III. Temporal Structure of Discourse -- 15. The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics? / David R. Dowty -- 16. Temporal Relations, Discourse Structure, and Commonsense Entailment / Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher -- 17. News Stories as Narratives / Allan Bell -- 18. Tense as Discourse Anaphor / Bonnie Lynn Webber -- 19. Tense Interpretation in the Context of Narrative / Fei Song and Robin Cohen -- 20. An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution / Janyce Wiebe, Tom O'Hara, Thorsten Ohrstrom-Sandgren, and K. J. McKeever -- 21. Tense Trees as the Fine Structure of Discourse / Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert -- 22. Algorithms for Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Discourse / Janet Hitzeman, Marc Moens, and Claire Grover -- Part IV. Temporal Annotation -- 23. A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information / George Wilson, Inderjeet Mani, Beth Sundheim, and Lisa Ferro -- 24. The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences / Graham Katz and Fabrizio Arosio -- 25. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses / Elena Filatove and Eduard Hovy -- 26. From Temporal Expressions to Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging of News Messages / Franck Schilder and Christopher Habel -- 27. The Specification Language TimeML / James Pustejovsky, Robert Ingria, Roser Sauri, Jose Castano, Jessica Littman, Robert Gaizauskas, Andrea Setzer, Graham Katz, and Inderjeet Mani -- 28. A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese / Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, and Chunfa Yuan -- 29. Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison / Andrea Setzer, Robert Gaizauskas, and Mark Hepple.

"This book includes selected classic and contemporary papers in four areas: tense, aspect and event structure; temporal reasoning; the temporal structure of natural language discourse; and temporal annotation. Introductions to each area provide technical background for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines"--Provided by publisher.

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