The Language of Time

PART 1: TENSE, ASPECT, AND EVENT STRUCTURE; 1. Verbs and Times; 2. The Syntax of Event Structure; 3. The Algebra of Events; 4. The Tense of Verbs; 5. Tense Logic and the Logic of Earlier and Later; 6. Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference; 7. Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications; 8. A Computational Model of the Semantics of Tense and Aspect; PART II: TEMPORAL REASONING; 9. A Temporal Logic for Reasoning About Processes and Plans; 10. A Logic-Based Calculus of Events; 11. Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy; 12. Towards a General Theory of Action and Time; 13. A Critical Examination of Allen's Theory of Action and Time; 14. Annotating and Reasoning About Time and Events; PART III: TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF DISCOURSE; 15. The Effects of Aspectual Class on the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Semantics or Pragmatics?; 16. Temporal Relations, Discourse Structure, and Commonsense Entailment; 17. News Stories as Narratives; 18. Tense as Discourse Anaphor; 19. Tense Interpretation in the Context of Narrative; 20. An Empirical Approach to Temporal Reference Resolution; 21. Tense Trees as the Fine Structure of Discourse; 22. Algorithms for Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Discourse; PART IV: TEMPORAL ANNOTATION; 23. A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information; 24. The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences; 25. Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses; 26. From Temporal Expressions to Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging of News Messages; 27. The Specification Language TimeML; 28. A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese; 29. Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison; Index