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