Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
Temporal ontology and temporal reference
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
A computational model of the semantics of tense and aspect
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Time and modality in a natural language interface to a planning system
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on natural language processing
From conceptual time to linguistic time
Computational Linguistics
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
Artificial Intelligence
A fast and portable realizer for text generation systems
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
A compositional semantics of temporal expressions in English
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
The interpretation of tense in discourse
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
How to visualize time, tense and aspect?
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Towards automatic generation of natural language generation systems
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
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
Learning sentence-internal temporal relations
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Dynamic semantics for tense and aspect
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Selecting tense aspect and connecting words in language generation
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A tool for deep semantic encoding of narrative texts
ACLDemos '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Software Demonstrations
The Chinese aspect generation based on aspect selection functions
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
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We describe a method for assigning English tense and aspect in a system that realizes surface text for symbolically encoded narratives. Our testbed is an encoding interface in which propositions that are attached to a timeline must be realized from several temporal viewpoints. This involves a mapping from a semantic encoding of time to a set of tense/aspect permutations. The encoding tool realizes each permutation to give a readable, precise description of the narrative so that users can check whether they have correctly encoded actions and statives in the formal representation. Our method selects tenses and aspects for individual event intervals as well as subintervals (with multiple reference points), quoted and unquoted speech (which reassign the temporal focus), and modal events such as conditionals.