Temporal Relations: Reference or Discourse Coherence?
Abstract
Description
The temporal relations that hold between events described by successive utterances are often left implicit or underspecified. We address the role of two phenomena with respect to the recovery of these relations: (1) the referential properties of tense, and (2) the role of temporal constraints imposed by coherence relations. We account for several facets of the identification of temporal relations through an integration of these.
To appear in the Proceedings of ACL-94, Student Session. 5 pages, LaTeX source, requires lingmacros. Comments are welcome
To appear in the Proceedings of ACL-94, Student Session. 5 pages, LaTeX source, requires lingmacros. Comments are welcome