Inderjeet Mani / James Pustejovsky / Robert Gaizauskas

Gebundenes Buch

The Language of Time: A Reader

Beschreibung

- 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

Autor

Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown University, James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, and Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield

Contributors: James Allen, University of Rochester Fabrizio Arosio, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Nicholas Asher, University of Texas Emmon Bach, University of Massachusetts and University of London Allen Bell, Auckland University of Technology Jose Castano, Brandeis University Luca Chittaro, University of Udine Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo Carlo Combi, University of Verona Bonnie J. Dorr, University of Maryland, College Park David R. Dowty, The Ohio State University Lisa Ferro, The MITRE Corporation Elena Filatova, Columbia University Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield Antony Galton, University of Exeter Claire Grover, University of Edinburgh Christopher Habel, University of Hamburg Mark Hepple, University of Sheffield Janet Hitzeman, The MITRE Corporation Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California (Information Sciences Institute) Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California (Information Sciences Institute) Chung Hee Hwang, Raytheon Company Robert Ingria, Deceased Graham Katz, University of Osnabruck Robert Kowalski, Imperial College Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh Wenjie Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jessica Littman, Brandeis University Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown University Drew McDermot, Yale University K. J. McKeever, formerly at University of Pittsburgh Marc Moens, Rhetorical Systems and University of Edinburgh Tom O'Hara, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Thorsten Ohrstrom-Sandgren, formerly at University of Pittsburgh Mari Broman Olsen, Microsoft Research Rebecca J. Passonneau, Columbia University A.N. Prior, deceased James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University Hans Reichenbach, deceased Roser Sauri, Brandeis University Frank Schilder, The Thomson Corporation Lenhart K. Schubert, University of Rochester Marek Sergot, Imperial College Andrea Setzer, Sheffield University Fei Song, University of Guelph Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Beth Sundheim, SPAWAR Systems Center Zeno Vendler, Deceased Bonnie Lynn Webber, University of Edinburgh Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh George Wilson, The MITRE Corporation Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Chunfa Yuan, Tsinghua University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199268535
• ISBN-10: 0199268533
• Artikelnr.: 21584456