TY - BOOK AU - Mani,Inderjeet AU - Pustejovsky,J. AU - Gaizauskas,Robert TI - The language of time: a reader SN - 0199268533 AV - P294.5 .L36 2005 U1 - 425 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Temporal constructions KW - Space and time in language N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -