Towards a general theory of action and time
Artificial Intelligence
ACL '86 Proceedings of the 24th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A compositional semantics of temporal expressions in English
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
Synergistic use of direct manipulation and natural language
CHI '89 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The role of natural language in a multimodal interface
UIST '92 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Integrated interfaces for decision-support with simulation
WSC '91 Proceedings of the 23rd conference on Winter simulation
Time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces
Natural Language Engineering
Logical form of complex sentences in task-oriented dialogues
ACL '91 Proceedings of the 29th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Temporal structure of discourse
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
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An analysis of English tense and aspect is presented that specifies temporal precedence relations within a sentence. The relevant reference points for interpretation are taken to be the initial and terminal points of events in the world, as well as two "hypothetical" times: the perfect time (when a sentence contains perfect aspect) and the progressive or during time. A method for providing temporal interpretation for nontensed elements in the sentence is also described.