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Exploring Time, Tense, and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces

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John Benjamins Publishing Company, Sep 1, 2002 - 306 pages
Drawing upon tense and aspect theories, temporal logics, and temporal databases, this cross-discipline book examines relevant issues from the three areas, developing a unified theoretical framework that can be used to build natural language interfaces to temporal databases.
  

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Page ii - Natural Language Processing Editor Prof. Ruslan Mitkov School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB...
Page ii - Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, USC) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University) Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili Un., Tarragona) Andrei Mikheev (University of Edinburgh) John Nerbonne (University of Groningen) Nicolas Nicolov (IBM, TJ Watson Research Center) Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University) Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester) Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park) Keh-Yih Su (Behaviour Design Corp.)...
Page 12 - Pp is true at a time t iff there is a time t' such that t' is before t and p is true at t'.
Page 307 - Didier, Christian JACQUEMIN and Marie-Claude L'HOMME (eds.): Recent Advances in Computational Terminology. 2001. 3. MANI, Inderjeet: Automatic Summarization. 2001. 4. MERLO, Paola and Suzanne STEVENSON (eds.): The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues. 2002. 5. JACKSON, Peter and Isabelle MOULINIER: Natural Language Processing for Online Applications. 2002. 6. ANDROUTSOPOULOS, loannis: Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces....
Page 2 - These are intended to store and manipulate in a principled manner information not only about the present, but also about the past and future (Tansel et al.
Page 156 - SYNSEM|LOC|CAT|ASPECT value is token-identical with that of the semantic head. (In a headed phrase, the semantic head is the ADJUNCT-DAUGHTER if any, and the HEAD-DAUGHTER otherwise...
Page 307 - ... the series NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) the following titles have been published thus far, or are scheduled for publication: 1. BUNT, Harry and William BLACK (eds.): Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue. Studies in computational pragmatics. 2000. 2. BOURIGAULT, Didier, Christian JACQUEMFN and Marie-Claude L'HOMME (eds.): Recent Advances in Computational Terminology.
Page 198 - Again, it is important to realise that although gregorian behaves like a normal relation, it does not need to be physically present in the database. Its tuples can be computed dynamically, whenever they are needed, using some algorithm specified by the calendar definition.
Page 17 - PhD thesis, on which this book is based, at the University of Edinburgh. The author is also grateful to the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for funding that work.
Page 79 - PFUNS and ne {1,2,3,...}, to another function (OBJS)" t-> pow(PERIODS). pow(S) denotes the powerset of S, ie, the set of all subsets of S.

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LINGUIST List 14.2139: Computational Ling: Androutsopoulos (2002)
Androutsopoulos, Ion (2002) Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces. John Benjamins (Natural Language Processing Series, ...
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Exploring Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Language Database Interfaces (Natural Language Planning Series) (No. 6). Author(s) : ANDROUTSOPOULOS Ioannis ...
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