The analysis of tense and aspect in Eurotra

Authors:
Frank Van Eynde
Affiliations:
Eurotra-Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Venue:
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
Year:
1988

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Abstract

This paper presents a framework for the model-theoretic analysis of tense and aspect forms in discourse. It has been developed for Eurotra, the MT project of the European Community, and has been applied to the nine Eurotra languages: English, German, Dutch, Danish, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.The paper consists of six parts. The first presents the problem of translating tense and aspect forms and indicates the type of solution I envisage. The second contains a formalism for the representation of time meanings. The third and the fourth present a theory of tense and aspect respectively. The fifth discusses the issue of compositionality and the sixth is about the use of the system in the Eurotra framework.