{"pk":30304,"title":"Reasoning About the Temporal Structure of Narrative Texts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The process of determining the temporal structure of a narrative text is extremely complex. In this paper, we examine a small but central part of this process: the roles of aspectual class and the progressive/non-progressive distinction. A standard set of aspectual calsses is presented and the temporal effects of each of these classes is discussed. Finally we briefly discuss an implementation of a system which can read a simple narrative text and construct a model of the temporal structure of that text.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Session #5","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03d932kj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Almeida","name_suffix":"","institution":"State University of New York at Buffalo","department":""},{"first_name":"Stuart","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Shapiro","name_suffix":"","institution":"State University of New York at Buffalo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1983-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30304/galley/20158/download/"}]}