REPRESENTING TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE IN CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS

doi:10.1016/0950-7051(91)90049-8

1991-12-01

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Bernard Moulin

Daniel Côté

DOI：10.1016/0950-7051(91)90049-8

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This study was motivated by some difficulties encountered by the authors when trying to express temporal knowledge using Sowa's conceptual graph (CG) approach. An overview of Sowa's approach is given and the difficulties encountered when trying to model temporal knowledge are outlined: the disparity of notations allowed by CG theory for expressing temporal information; the ambiguity and incompleteness of tense specification; the difficulty of harmonizing tenses and intergraph temporal relations. Various approaches suggested for representing time both in artificial intelligence and linguistics are presented, and an extension to Sowa's approach is proposed in which temporal and non-temporal knowledge are differentiated. In this model points in time are represented as well as time intervals. A semantic interpretation of verbs is provided based on an extension of Reichenbach's model of temporal markers. The authors show how their approach enables the representation of tenses as well as the aspectual properties of natural language sentences.

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CONCEPTUAL GRAPH THEORY

TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION