Title :
A Heuristic Approach to Order Events in Narrative Texts
Author_Institution :
Inst. Galilee, Univ. Paris 13, Paris
Abstract :
We describe a heuristic method to order the events evoked in texts describing road accidents. The method consists first in generating, by non monotonic inference rules, a set of precedence and simultaneity constraints between temporal references linked to particular words of the text. Then, the proposed algorithm updates the narration order of the events to satisfy these constraints and give the real order of the events described in this text. The temporal information is represented according to a linear temporal model which is enhanced in a first order reified language.
Keywords :
inference mechanisms; natural language processing; road safety; text analysis; traffic engineering computing; first order reified language; heuristic approach; linear temporal model; narration order; narrative texts; nonmonotonic inference rules; order events; road accidents; temporal information; temporal references; Artificial intelligence; Feeds; Inference algorithms; Joining processes; Natural languages; Qualifications; Road accidents; non-monotonic reasoning; ordering events; temporal reasoning; temporality in natural language;
Conference_Titel :
Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 2008. TIME '08. 15th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3181-6
DOI :
10.1109/TIME.2008.13
