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The Language of Time: A Reader
Edited by Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky, and Robert Gaizauskas
604 pages
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Numerous figures
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246x171mm
978-0-19-926854-2
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Paperback
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26 May 2005
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- 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
This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted. In focussing on the treatment and retrieval of time-based information it seeks to lay the foundation for temporally-aware natural language computer processing systems, for example those that process documents on the worldwide web to answer questions or produce summaries. The development of such systems
requires the application of technical knowledge from many different disciplines. The book is the first to bring these disciplines together, by means of classic and contemporary papers in four areas: tense, aspect, and event structure; temporal reasoning; the temporal structure of natural language discourse; and temporal annotation. Clear, self-contained editorial introductions to each area provide the necessary technical background for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines.
A wide range of students and professionals in academia and industry will value this book as an introduction and guide to a new and vital technology. The former include researchers, students, and teachers of natural language processing, linguistics, artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, information retrieval (including the growing speciality of question-answering), library sciences, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Those in industry include corporate managers and researchers, software product developers, and engineers in information-intensive companies, such as on-line database and web-service providers. Readership: A wide range of students and professionals in academia and industry will value this book as an introduction and guide to a new and vital technology. The former include researchers, students, and teachers of natural language processing, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, computer
science, information retrieval (including the growing speciality of question-answering), library sciences, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Those in industry include corporate managers and researchers, software product developers, and engineers in information-intensive companies, such as on-line database and web-service providers.
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Edited by 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
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"a genuinely useful resource, one that will guide work in this domain over the next decade and more." - Patrick Blackburn, Computational Linguistics "This book brings together a variety of approaches, theoretical as well practical, for dealing with time in natural language. The papers are among the most relevant. They have been arranged in an order which makes sense. The introductions are excellent.... Compulsory reading for people working in the relevant disciplines." - Anil Singh, Linguist List
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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
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