Description
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. Clearly, the necessary technical background for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines.
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Professional Reviews
Computational Linguistics journal
"...a superb collection of primary material ... Thanks to the editorial work that has gone into it, this book is a genuinely
useful resource, one that will guide work in this domain over the next decade and more...belongs on the bookshelf of any linguist, computer scientist, or logician interested in temporal reasoning.. on the shelf of any reader ... interested in ...natural language processing." -- Patrick Blackburn, Computational Linguistics (September'2006 issue)
LINGUIST list journal
'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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