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Plan-based event representations for the analysis of tense and aspect (1999).
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| Author | Boella, Guido Damiano, Rossana |
| Abstract | . In this paper, a representation formalism based on actions and hierarchical plans is proposed to model the aspectual and temporal composition of sentences. Action verbs are interpreted as (possibly underspecified) instances of action schemata that include a plan body; the interpretation process is carried out in an incremental way: the other linguistic elements, like tense and adverbs, are evaluated by means of rules that add constraints to event representations. Pragmatic factors related to the communicative situations are accounted for by introducing defeasible rules for conversational implicatures that determine the telicity of a given description. 1 Introduction According to [10], the ontologies adopted to model aspect composition have become increasingly more complex, in the attempt to find a better explanation for aspectual and temporal phenomena: from points and intervals [1] and composed events [6], to the notion of nucleus introduced by [10]. We proceed in this trend by pro... |
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| Publisher Date | 1999-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Plan-based Event Representation Hierarchical Plan Interpretation Process Conversational Implicatures Communicative Situation Defeasible Rule Temporal Phenomenon Event Representation Pragmatic Factor Linguistic Element Incremental Way Representation Formalism Aspect Composition Composed Event Action Verb Temporal Composition Plan Body Action Schema |
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