Temporal ontology and temporal reference
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Languages, automata, and logic
Handbook of formal languages, vol. 3
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
A Finite-state Approach to Events in Natural Language Semantics
Journal of Logic and Computation
Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference
Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference
Regular relations for temporal propositions
Natural Language Engineering
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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The proposal from Steedman 2005 that "the formal devices" required for temporality in linguistic semantics "are those related to representation of causality and goal-directed action" is developed using finite automata, implicit in which are notions of causality (labeled transitions) and goal-directed action (final/accepting states). A bounded granularity is fixed through a finite alphabet, the temporality of which is given special attention and applied to causal models. A notion of a string in compliance with a causal model is defined such that for a finite causal model M, the set of strings compliant with M is a regular language.