The language of time : a reader /
edited by Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky, Robert Gaizauskas.
- xii, 588 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tense, Aspect, and Event Structure -- Verbs and Times / The Syntax of Event Structure / The Algebra of Events / The Tense of Verbs / Tense Logic and the Logic of Earlier and Later / Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference / Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications / A Computational Model of the Semantics of Tense and Aspect / Temporal Reasoning -- A Temporal Logic for Reasoning About Processes and Plans / A Logic-Based Calculus of Events / Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy / Towards a General Theory of Action and Time / A Critical Examination of Allen's Theory of Action and Time / Annotating and Reasoning About Time and Events / Temporal Structure of Discourse -- The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics? / Temporal Relations, Discourse Structure, and Commonsense Entailment / News Stories as Narratives / Tense as Discourse Anaphor / Tense Interpretation in the Context of Narrative / An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution / Tense Trees as the Fine Structure of Discourse / Algorithms for Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Discourse / Temporal Annotation -- A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information / The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences / Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses / From Temporal Expressions to Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging of News Messages / The Specification Language TimeML / A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese / Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison / Z. Vendler -- James Pustejovsky -- Emmon Bach -- Hans Reichenbach -- A.N. Prior -- Marc Moens and Mark Steedman -- Bonnie J. Door and Mari Broman Olsen -- Rebecca J. Passonneau -- Drew McDermot -- Robert Kowalski and Marek Sergot -- Luca Chittaro and Carlo Combi -- James F. Allen -- Antony Galton -- Jerry Hobbs and James Pustejovsky -- David R. Dowty -- Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher -- Allan Bell -- Bonnie Lynn Webber -- Fei Song and Robin Cohen -- Janyce Wiebe, Tom O'Hara, Thorsten Ohrstrom-Sandgren, and K. J. McKeever -- Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert -- Janet Hitzeman, Marc Moens, and Claire Grover -- George Wilson, Inderjeet Mani, Beth Sundheim, and Lisa Ferro -- Graham Katz and Fabrizio Arosio -- Elena Filatove and Eduard Hovy -- Franck Schilder and Christopher Habel -- James Pustejovsky, Robert Ingria, Roser Sauri, Jose Castano, Jessica Littman, Robert Gaizauskas, Andrea Setzer, Graham Katz, and Inderjeet Mani -- Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, and Chunfa Yuan -- Andrea Setzer, Robert Gaizauskas, and Mark Hepple. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Part II. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Part III. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Part IV. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
"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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Grammar, Comparative and general--Temporal constructions Space and time in language