Prétexte: A Generator for the Expression of Temporal Information
EWNLG '93 Selected papers from the Fourth European Workshop on Trends in Natural Language Generation, An Artificial Intelligence Perspective
Tense, aspect, and cognitive representation of time
IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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This paper presents a method for temporal reasoning based on context-scanning rules. The method uses exclusively linguistic markers (tensed forms, temporal and non-temporal adverbials, interjections, particular syntactic structures) which allow to carry out temporal reasoning centred on the act of utterance. Due to the information extracted from the analysed texts, the method is capable to identify aspecto-temporal values in isolated utterances but also temporal structures of larger text units. The aspecto-temporal information receives formal representation in combinatory logic which allows its machine processing.