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Context-Scanning Strategy in Temporal Reasoning

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 1999)

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This paper presents a method for temporal reasoning based on context-scanning rules. The method uses exclusively linguistic markers (tensed forms, temporal and non-temporal adverbials, interjections, particular syntactic structures) which allow to carry out temporal reasoning centred on the act of utterance. Due to the information extracted from the analysed texts, the method is capable to identify aspecto-temporal values in isolated utterances but also temporal structures of larger text units. The aspecto-temporal information receives formal representation in combinatory logic which allows its machine processing.

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  1. Dept. of Russian Studies, Sofia University, Sofia

    Nikolai Vazov

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  1. University of Trento, DISA, 5, via Inama, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet  & Massimo Benerecetti  & 

  2. IRST-ITC, Pante di Povo, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Luciano Serafini

  3. University Paris VI, LIP6 4, Place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Patrick Brézillon

  4. University of Trento, 26, via Verdi, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Francesca Castellani

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Vazov, N. (1999). Context-Scanning Strategy in Temporal Reasoning. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_30

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