Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Temporal reasoning based on semi-intervals
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
A Hierarchy for Convex Relations
TIME '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME '97)
A Visualization Method of Time Expressions using Starting/Ending Point Plane
TIME '98 Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning
Tense trees as the "fine structure" of discourse
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An ontology of time for the semantic web
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) - Special Issue on Temporal Information Processing
Learning event durations from event descriptions
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Machine learning of temporal relations
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Temporal discourse models for narrative structure
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
An algebraic approach to granularity in qualitative time and space representation
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A pilot study on acquiring metric temporal constraints for events
ARTE '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events
GSTP: a temporal reasoning system supporting multi-granularity temporal constraints
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Finite-state representations embodying temporal relations
FSMNLP '11 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing
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Representation and reasoning about time and events is a fundamental aspect of our cognitive abilities and intrinsic to our construal of the structure of our personal and historical lives and recall of past experiences. These capabilities also underlie our understanding of narrative language. This paper describes an abstract device called a Chronoscope, that allows a temporal representation (a set of events and their temporal relations) to be viewed based on temporal abstractions. The temporal representation is augmented with abstract events called episodes that stand for discourse segments. The temporal abstractions allow one to collapse temporal relations, or view the representation at different time granularities (hour, day, month, year, etc.), with corresponding changes in event characterization and temporal relations at those granularities. The paper situates Chronoscopes in terms of systems for automatically extracting the temporal structure of narratives.