Modeling and learning vague event durations for temporal reasoning

  • Authors:
  • Feng Pan;Rutu Mulkar-Mehta;Jerry R. Hobbs

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper reports on our recent work on modeling and automatically extracting vague, implicit event durations from text (Pan et al., 2006a, 2006b). It is a kind of commonsense knowledge that can have a substantial impact on temporal reasoning problems. We have also proposed a method of using normal distributions to model Judgments that are intervals on a scale and measure their interannotator agreement; this should extend from time to other kinds of vague but substantive information in text and commonsense reasoning.