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2002
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Finite-State Approach to Event Semantics
Events employed in natural language semantics are characterized in terms of regular languages, each string in which can be regarded as a motion picture. The relevant finite autom...
Tim Fernando
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CONTEXT
1999
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics
Abstract. Temporal reference in natural language is inherently context dependent: what counts as a moment in one context may be structurally analysed in another context, and vice v...
Fabio Pianesi, Achille C. Varzi
SEMCO
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Understanding Implicit Entities and Events with Getaruns
- Semantic processing represents the new challenge for all applications that require text understanding, as for instance Q/A. In this paper we will highlight the need to couple sta...
Rodolfo Delmonte
TIME
1998
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Logic of Action, Causality, and the Temporal Relations of Events
In this paper, we propose a logic of action and causality. The most important part of our contribution is a semantics that integrates action, temporal structure, and probability. ...
Richard B. Scherl, Glenn Shafer
LICS
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Relations in Concurrency
The theme of this paper is profunctors, and their centrality and ubiquity in understanding concurrent computation. Profunctors (a.k.a. distributors, or bimodules) are a generalisa...
Glynn Winskel