TexTime Temporal Expressions and Time Processing (in Texas)

About

The aim of the TexTime project is to improve our understanding of and create computational analyses of events and entities evoked in natural language texts and the structure and progression of time over those events. This work will not only contribute to the scientific understanding of how time is conceptualized and communicated in language, but will lead to the development of tools to assist in cross-cultural information exchange.

People

Principal Investigator (1997-May 2007): Carlota S. Smith (in memoriam)

Principal Investigator (June 2007-Present): Jason Baldridge

Research Assistants: Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert

Events

• Upcoming CHRONOS 8: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality October 2-5, 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin. Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Carlota S. Smith (1934-2007)
• Sponsored Talk: Sharon Goldwater (Stanford) From sounds to words: Bayesian modeling of early language acquisition, UT Austin Department of Linguistics, February 4, 2008.
• Sponsored Talk: Andrew Kehler (UCSD) Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation, UT Austin Department of Linguistics, September 7, 2007.
• The Fourth Workshop on Discourse Structure, Austin, Texas, March 3-5, 2006. Proceedings now available

Publications

• Alexis Palmer, Elias Ponvert, Jason Baldridge and Carlota S. Smith, "A Sequencing Model for Situation Entity Classification", Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
• Alexis Palmer, Jonas Kuhn, and Carlota Smith, "Utilization of Multiple Language Resources for Robust Grammar-Based Tense and Aspect Classification", LREC 2004, Lisbon.
• Carlota S. Smith, Modes of Discourse, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Talks

• Carlota S. Smith, "Discourse Modes across languages". Presented at the Fourth Workshop on Discourse Structure, Austin, Texas. March 3-5, 2006.