Time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces

Time, tense and aspect in natural language database interfaces

Most existing natural language database interfaces (nldbs) were designed to be used with database systems that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data, and they do not support adequately temporal linguistic mechanisms (verb tenses, temporal adverbials, temporal subordinate clauses, etc.). The database community is becoming increasingly interested in temporal databas...

Time , Tense and Aspect in Natural

Most existing natural language database interfaces (nldbs) were designed to be used with database systems that provide very limited facilities for manipulating time-dependent data, and they do not support adequately temporal linguistic mechanisms (verb tenses, temporal adverbials, temporal subordinate clauses, etc.). The database community is becoming increasingly interested in temporal databas...

How To Visualize Time, Tense And Aspect?

Nous allons dEcrire ci-dessous une extension d'un syst~me interactif de gEnEration de phrases. Apr~s une description de SWIM,-acronyme de See What I Mean ?-nous allons discuter la fa~on dont on communique au syst~me des notions relatives au temps et ~t l'aspect. Avec SWIM nous poursuivons trois objectifs : (a) assister un Etudiant dans rapprentissage d'une langue, plus prdcisEment aider l'appre...

Tense, Aspect, and Cognitive Representation of Time

Selecting Tense, Aspect, and Connecting Words In Language Generation

Generating language that reflects the temporal organization of represented knowledge requires a language generation model chat integrates contemporary theories of tense and aspect , temporal representations, and methods to plan text This paper presents a mode) that produces complex sentences that reflect temporal relations present in underlying temporal concepts The mam result of this work is t...