Semantic interpretation of temporal information by abductive inference Export

@misc{citeulike:936263, abstract = {Besides temporal information explicitly available in verbs and adjuncts, the temporal interpretation of a text also depends on general world knowledge and default assumptions. We will present a theory for describing the relation between, on the one hand, verbs, their tenses and adjuncts and, on the other, the eventualities and periods of time they represent and their relative temporal locations. <br />The theory is formulated in logic and is a practical implementation of the concepts described in Ness Schelkens et al. We will show how an abductive resolution procedure can be used on this representation to extract temporal information from texts.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Verdoolaege, Sven and Denecker, Marc and Schelkens, Ness and De Schreye, Danny and Van Eynde, Frank}, citeulike-article-id = {936263}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011034}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0011034}, day = {22}, eprint = {cs/0011034}, keywords = {abductive-inference, inference, semantics, time}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2006-11-08 13:38:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Semantic interpretation of temporal information by abductive inference}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011034}, year = {2000} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:936263 L3 - citeulike-article-id:936263 N2 - Besides temporal information explicitly available in verbs and adjuncts, the temporal interpretation of a text also depends on general world knowledge and default assumptions. We will present a theory for describing the relation between, on the one hand, verbs, their tenses and adjuncts and, on the other, the eventualities and periods of time they represent and their relative temporal locations. <br />The theory is formulated in logic and is a practical implementation of the concepts described in Ness Schelkens et al. We will show how an abductive resolution procedure can be used on this representation to extract temporal information from texts. TI - Semantic interpretation of temporal information by abductive inference KW - abductive-inference KW - inference KW - semantics KW - time AU - Verdoolaege, Sven AU - Denecker, Marc AU - Schelkens, Ness AU - De Schreye, Danny AU - Van Eynde, Frank PY - 2000/Nov/22/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011034 ER -