Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
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
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on tense and aspect
Computational Linguistics
Getting and keeping the center of attention
A symposium on future directions in natural language processing on Challenges in natural language processing
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
A property-sharing constraint in Centering
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A centering approach to pronouns
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
Tense trees as the "fine structure" of discourse
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '88 Proceedings of the 26th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Communications of the ACM
Computational Linguistics
A methodology for extending focusing frameworks
Computational Linguistics
Functional centering: grounding referential coherence in information structure
Computational Linguistics
Algorithms for analysing the temporal structure of discourse
EACL '95 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Temporal relations: reference or discourse coherence?
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd 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
Robust method of pronoun resolution using full-text information
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Centering: A Parametric Theory and Its Instantiations
Computational Linguistics
Annotating and measuring temporal relations in texts
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
An empirical approach to temporal reference resolution
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Integrating Gricean and attentional constraints
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
Evaluating temporal graphs built from texts via transitive reduction
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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We present a semantic and pragmatic account of the anaphoric properties of past and perfect that improves on previous work by integrating discourse structure, aspectual type, surface structure and commonsense knowledge. A novel aspect of our account is that we distinguish between two kinds of temporal intervals in the interpretation of temporal operators --- discourse reference intervals and event intervals. This distinction makes it possible to develop an analogy between centering and temporal centering, which operates on discourse reference intervals. Our temporal property-sharing principle is a defeasible inference rule on the logical form. Along with lexical and causal reasoning, it plays a role in incrementally resolving underspecified aspects of the event structure representation of an utterance against the current context.