{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Improving Heuristic-Based Temporal Analysis of Narratives with Aspect Determination","authors":[{"name":"Fei Song","slug":"fei-song","given":"Fei","family":"Song","affiliation":""},{"name":"Robin Cohen","slug":"robin-cohen","given":"Robin","family":"Cohen","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In previous work, we presented an algorithm for tense interpretation which employs a temporal focus to determine the intended temporal relations between the states and events mentioned in a narrative. In this paper , we propose a new two-phased classification scheme for aspect. Each situation described in an utterance is first classified as static (state) or dynamic (event), and if dynamic, as telic (event with a culmination point) or atelic (event without a culmination point). Then, independent of the class, the view of the situation is identified either as a point or as an interval. We then demonstrate how the determination of aspect can be integrated into our tense interpretation algorithm to produce a richer analysis of temporal relations. Our classification for aspect is more detailed than most of the existing schemes, allowing us to extract the interval relations between situations and cover a wide range of English narratives.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/172","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0172.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/172.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/bibtex/172","volume":{"slug":"1995","title":"Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1995","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/","year":1995,"location":"Montréal, Québec, Canada","dates":"","editors":"Chris S. Mellish","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":172,"pages":{"first":1338,"last":1344},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}