Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
Temporal ontology in natural language
ACL '87 Proceedings of the 25th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
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
Providing a unified account of definite noun phrases in discourse
ACL '83 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
HLT '90 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Communications of the ACM
Discourse segmentation by human and automated means
Computational Linguistics
Time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces
Natural Language Engineering
The rhetorical parsing of natural language texts
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Automatic extraction of aspectual information from a monolingual corpus
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Discourse relations and defeasible knowledge
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Logical form of complex sentences in task-oriented dialogues
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Intention-based segmentation: human reliability and correlation with linguistic cues
ACL '93 Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Temporal relations: reference or discourse coherence?
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A simplified theory of tense representations and constraints on their composition
ACL '90 Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Tense trees as the "fine structure" of discourse
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Exploiting reference interaction in resolving temporal reference
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
On representing the temporal structure of a natural language text
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Temporal structure of discourse
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
How to visualize time, tense and aspect?
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Discourse relations: a structural and presuppositional account using lexicalised TAG
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Robust temporal processing of news
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Anaphora and Discourse Structure
Computational Linguistics
Discourse processing for explanatory essays in tutorial applications
SIGDIAL '02 Proceedings of the 3rd SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 2
TASIP '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Temporal and spatial information processing - Volume 13
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
Combining hierarchical clustering and machine learning to predict high-level discourse structure
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Combining linguistic features with weighted Bayesian classifier for temporal reference processing
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Extending temporal databases to deal with telic/atelic medical data
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Temporal discourse models for narrative structure
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation
EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
An empirical approach to temporal reference resolution
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
A pilot study on acquiring metric temporal constraints for events
ARTE '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Annotating and Reasoning about Time and Events
Generating event descriptions with SAGE: a simulation and generation environment
INLG '94 Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Dynamic semantics for tense and aspect
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Improving heuristic based temporal analysis of narratives with aspect determination
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Chronoscopes: a theory of underspecified temporal representations
Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Annotating, extracting and reasoning about time and events
Kernel based discourse relation recognition with temporal ordering information
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Tense interpretation in the context of narrative
AAAI'91 Proceedings of the ninth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Temporal reasoning during plan recognition
AAAI'91 Proceedings of the ninth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Comparison of different algebras for inducing the temporal structure of texts
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Meaning of 'now' and other temporal location adverbs
Proceedings of the 17th Amsterdam colloquium conference on Logic, language and meaning
Evaluating temporal graphs built from texts via transitive reduction
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
On the identification of temporal clauses
MICAI'06 Proceedings of the 5th Mexican international conference on Artificial Intelligence
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In this paper, I consider a range of English expressions and show that their context-dependency can be characterized in terms of two properties:1. They specify entities in an evolving model of the discourse that the listener is constructing;2. The particular entity specified depends on another entity in that part of the evolving "discourse model" that the listener is currently attending to.Such expressions have been called anaphors. I show how tensed clauses share these characteristics, usually just attributed to anaphoric noun phrases. This not only allows us to capture in a simple way the oft-stated but difficult-to-prove intuition that tense is anaphoric, but also contributes to our knowledge of what is needed for understanding narrative text.