{"title":"A Model for Processing Temporal References in Chinese","authors":"Wenjie Li, Kam-Fai Wong, C. Yuan","doi":"10.3115/1118238.1118243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1118238.1118243","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional information systems cannot cater for temporal information effectively. For this reason, it is useful to capture and maintain the temporal knowledge (especially the relative knowledge) associated to each action in an information system. In this paper, we propose a model to mine and organize temporal relations embedded in Chinese sentences. Three kinds of event expressions are accounted for, i.e. single event, multiple events and declared event(s). Experiments are conducted to evaluate the mining algorithm using a set of news reports and the results are significant. Error analysis has also been performed opening up new doors for future research.","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124407631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Annotation Of Temporal Information In Natural Language Sentences","authors":"G. Katz, F. Arosio","doi":"10.3115/1118238.1118252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1118238.1118252","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to present a language-neutral, theory-neutral method for annotating sentence-internal temporal relations. The annotation method is simple and can be applied without special training. The annotations are provided with a well-defined model-theoretic interpretation for use in the content-based comparison of annotations. Temporally annotated corpora have a number of applications, in lexicon/induction, translation and linguistic investigation. A searchable multi-language database has already been created.","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"243 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126790825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses","authors":"Elena Filatova, E. Hovy","doi":"10.3115/1118238.1118250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1118238.1118250","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a procedure for arranging into a time-line the contents of news stories describing the development of some situation. We describe the parts of the system that deal with 1. breaking sentences into event-clauses and 2. resolving both explicit and implicit temporal references. Evaluations show a performance of 52%, compared to humans.","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122802673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Temporal Expressions To Temporal Information: Semantic Tagging Of News Messages","authors":"Frank Schilder, C. Habel","doi":"10.3115/1118238.1118247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1118238.1118247","url":null,"abstract":"We present a semantic tagging system for temporal expressions and discuss how the temporal information conveyed by these expressions can be extracted. The performance of the system was evaluated wrt. a small hand-annotated corpus of news messages.","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132338432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Multilingual Approach to Annotating and Extracting Temporal Information","authors":"George Wilson, I. Mani, B. Sundheim, L. Ferro","doi":"10.3115/1118238.1118249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1118238.1118249","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a set of guidelines for annotating time expressions with a canonicalized representation of the times they refer to, and describes methods for extracting such time expressions from multiple languages.","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132309012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verbs and Times","authors":"Z. Vendler","doi":"10.2307/2182371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2182371","url":null,"abstract":"T HE fact that verbs have tenses indicates that considerations involving the concept of time are relevant to their use. These considerations are not limited merely to the obvious discrimination between past, present, and future; there is another, a more subtle dependence on that concept: the use of a verb may also suggest the particular way in which that verb presupposes and involves the notion of time. In a number of recent publications some attention has been paid to these finer aspects, perhaps for the first time systematically. Distinctions have been made among verbs suggesting processes, states, dispositions, occurrences, tasks, achievements, and so on. Obviously these differences cannot be explained in terms of time alone: other factors, like the presence or absence of an object, conditions, intended states of affairs, also enter the picture. Nevertheless one feels that the time element remains crucial; at least it is important enough to warrant separate treatment. Indeed, as I intend to show, if we focus our attention primarily upon the time schemata presupposed by various verbs,\" we are able to throw light on some of the obscurities which still remain in these matters. These time schemata will appear as important constituents of the concepts that prompt us to use those terms the way we consistently do. There are a few such schemata of very wide application. Once they have been discovered in some typical examples, they may be used as models of comparison in exploring and clarifying the behavior of any verb whatever. In indicating these schemata, I do not claim that they represent all possible ways in which verbs can be used correctly with respect to time determination nor that a verb exhibiting a use fairly covered by one schema cannot have divergent uses, which","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1957-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124709650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tenses of Verbs","authors":"H. Reichenbach","doi":"10.1515/9783110227185.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227185.1","url":null,"abstract":"A particularly important form of token-reflexive symbol is found in the tenses of verbs. The tenses determine time with reference to the time point of the act of speech, i.e., of the token uttered. A closer analysis reveals that the time indication given by the tenses is of a rather complex structure. Let us call the time point of the token the point of speech. Then the three indications, ‘before the point of speech’, ‘simultaneous with the point of speech’, and ‘after the point of speech’, furnish only three tenses; since the number of verb tenses is obviously greater, we need a more complex interpretation. From a sentence like ‘Peter had gone’ we see that the time order expressed in the tense does not concern one event, but two events, whose positions are determined with respect to the point of speech. We shall call these time points the point of the event and the point of reference. In the example the point of the event is the time when Peter went; the point of reference is a time between this point and the point of speech. In an individual sentence like the one given it is not clear which time point is used as the point of reference. This determination is rather given by the context of speech. In a story, for instance, the series of events recounted determines the point of reference which in this case is in the past, seen from the point of speech; some individual events lying outside this point are then referred, not directly to the point of speech, but to this point of reference determined by the story. The following example, taken fromW. Somerset Maugham’sOf Human Bondage, may make these time relations clear:","PeriodicalId":193127,"journal":{"name":"The Language of Time - A Reader","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122887923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}