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"content": "<table><tr><td colspan=\"5\">from domain-specific Hirschman's</td><td colspan=\"4\">system and other</td><td>in</td><td colspan=\"2\">that extra</td><td>GROK uses linguistic</td><td>\u2022 organization:</td><td>are</td><td>events</td><td>or-</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">information</td><td colspan=\"2\">for</td><td colspan=\"4\">analyzing</td><td colspan=\"2\">the</td><td colspan=\"2\">text,</td><td>whereas</td><td>ganized</td><td>on</td><td>a</td><td>time</td><td>line,</td><td>by</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">Hirschman relies primarily on available syntactic</td><td>key</td><td>events,</td><td>calendar</td><td>dates,</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">information.</td><td/><td colspan=\"5\">Therefore,</td><td colspan=\"4\">Hirschman's</td><td>system</td><td>before/after chains?</td></tr><tr><td>as</td><td colspan=\"3\">presented</td><td colspan=\"2\">in</td><td colspan=\"4\">[Hirschman</td><td colspan=\"2\">81]</td><td>can</td><td>neither</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">handle anaphoric references to continuous states</td><td>\u2022</td><td>problems:</td><td>how is</td><td>imprecision,</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">nor represent imprecision in time specification.</td><td>fuzziness,</td><td>and</td><td>incompleteness</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>of data handled?</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>\u2022</td><td>testing:</td><td>how</td><td>can</td><td>the</td><td>system</td></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">GROK</td><td>is</td><td>a</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">highly</td><td colspan=\"5\">exploratory</td><td>program.</td><td>be tested;</td><td>by queries,</td><td>proofs,</td></tr><tr><td>The</td><td colspan=\"4\">limitations</td><td colspan=\"6\">of the current</td><td colspan=\"2\">implementation</td><td>etc.?</td><td>Does it have a consistency</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"6\">are in three areas:</td><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>checker?</td></tr><tr><td/><td>\u2022</td><td>The</td><td colspan=\"4\">parser</td><td colspan=\"3\">itself</td><td colspan=\"2\">does</td><td>not</td><td>In GROK,</td><td>[ use an interval-based approach</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">provide</td><td colspan=\"2\">the</td><td colspan=\"4\">capability</td><td colspan=\"2\">of</td><td>a</td><td>to temporal</td><td>information</td><td>processing.</td><td>An event</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">chart</td><td colspan=\"3\">parser</td><td colspan=\"3\">since</td><td colspan=\"2\">it</td><td>will</td><td>is defined</td><td>as</td><td>an entity</td><td>of</td><td>finite duration.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>not</td><td/><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">give</td><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">different</td><td>As</td><td>in</td><td>IKamp</td><td>79,</td><td>3771,</td><td>event</td><td>structures</td><td>are</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"11\">interpretations of a structurally</td><td>transformed into instants by the Russell-Wiener</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">ambiguous</td><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">sentences.</td><td/><td/><td>This</td><td>construction.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">type</td><td>of</td><td/><td colspan=\"4\">structural</td><td colspan=\"3\">ambiguity,</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"11\">where one constituent can belong</td><td>[n</td><td>GROK,</td><td>the</td><td>NLPS</td><td>processes</td><td>temporal</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>to</td><td colspan=\"2\">two</td><td/><td>or</td><td colspan=\"3\">more</td><td colspan=\"3\">different</td><td>(nformat[on</td><td>by</td><td>first</td><td>associating</td><td>a</td><td>concept</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"5\">constructions,</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">would</td><td colspan=\"2\">not</td><td>be</td><td>with</td><td>a</td><td>temporal</td><td>reference,</td><td>then</td><td>evaluating</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">detected.</td><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>the extension</td><td>of</td><td>this event.</td><td>The evaluation</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>considers</td><td>syntactic</td><td>(e.~.,</td><td>adverbials)</td><td>and</td></tr><tr><td/><td>\u2022</td><td>The</td><td colspan=\"5\">knowledge</td><td colspan=\"2\">base</td><td colspan=\"2\">does</td><td>not</td><td>pragmatic</td><td>information</td><td>(current</td><td>time</td><td>focus).</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"11\">have a fully implemented frame</td><td>Each</td><td>event</td><td>is</td><td>represented</td><td>in</td><td>the</td><td>knowledge</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"4\">structure.</td><td colspan=\"2\">Each</td><td colspan=\"3\">~eneric</td><td/><td>frame</td><td>base with information about when, for how long,</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"11\">has a certain number of slots</td><td>and what occurred.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">that</td><td colspan=\"3\">define</td><td colspan=\"2\">the</td><td colspan=\"3\">concept.</td><td>A</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">generic</td><td colspan=\"3\">concept</td><td colspan=\"3\">(e.g.,</td><td/><td>sign)</td><td>The parser while analyzing</td><td>the sentences,</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">must</td><td colspan=\"2\">have</td><td colspan=\"2\">slots</td><td colspan=\"3\">which</td><td colspan=\"2\">contain</td><td>orders these events according to a \"key event\".</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">possible</td><td/><td colspan=\"4\">attributes</td><td colspan=\"2\">of</td><td>the</td><td>The</td><td>single</td><td>events</td><td>contain</td><td>information</td><td>about</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">specific</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">frame</td><td colspan=\"3\">(e.g.,</td><td/><td>where</td><td>the</td><td>temporal</td><td>indicator</td><td>which</td><td>is attached</td><td>to</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>is</td><td colspan=\"2\">the</td><td colspan=\"2\">sign</td><td colspan=\"2\">found;</td><td colspan=\"4\">how severe</td><td>a</td><td>domain-soec~fic</td><td>fact.</td><td>The</td><td>single</td><td>events</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>is</td><td colspan=\"2\">its</td><td colspan=\"6\">manifestation).</td><td/><td>These</td><td>are</td><td>connected</td><td>to the</td><td>respective</td><td>\"key event\".</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">slots</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">have</td><td colspan=\"2\">not</td><td colspan=\"2\">yet</td><td/><td>been</td><td>\"Key events\" are domain-specific.</td><td>[n general,</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"5\">implemented.</td><td colspan=\"2\">The</td><td colspan=\"3\">number</td><td>of</td><td>[ qcipulate</td><td>that</td><td>everv</td><td>domain</td><td>has a</td><td>limited</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">frames</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">is</td><td colspan=\"3\">strictly</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">i/mired</td><td>number of such \"key events\" which provide the</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>to</td><td colspan=\"2\">the</td><td/><td colspan=\"3\">temporal</td><td colspan=\"3\">frames</td><td>and</td><td>\"hooks\"</td><td>for</td><td>the</td><td>temporal</td><td>structure</td><td>of</td><td>a</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"9\">a few exemplary ~eneric</td><td colspan=\"2\">frames</td><td>domain-speci fic text.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"11\">necessary to process the text.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>CROK also</td><td>differs</td><td>from</td><td>logical</td><td>theories</td></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">\u2022 The</td><td/><td colspan=\"3\">range</td><td>of</td><td colspan=\"4\">phenomena</td><td>is</td><td>[n</td><td>that</td><td>it</td><td>deals</td><td>with</td><td>discourse</td><td>structures</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">limited.</td><td/><td colspan=\"7\">Only \"before-admission\"</td><td>and their conceptual</td><td>representations,</td><td>not with</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"4\">references</td><td colspan=\"2\">are</td><td colspan=\"4\">recognized</td><td>by</td><td>:solated</td><td>sentences</td><td>and</td><td>their</td><td>truth value.</td><td>[t</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"5\">the system.</td><td colspan=\"4\">Furthermore,</td><td/><td>slots</td><td>is different</td><td>from Kahn's rime specialist</td><td>{Kahn</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">that</td><td colspan=\"4\">prevent</td><td>the</td><td colspan=\"4\">inheritance</td><td>771 in that it uses domain knowledge and \"knows\"</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"11\">of events of limited durations</td><td>about temporal relations of a particular domain.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"8\">are not yet in place.</td><td/><td/><td>Moreover, Kahn's program only accepts LiSP-like</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>input</td><td>and</td><td>handled</td><td>only</td><td>explicit</td><td>temporal</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">in general,</td><td colspan=\"5\">GROK is still</td><td colspan=\"3\">in a developmental</td><td>information.</td><td>The use of domain-specific temporal</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">stage at which a number of phenomena have vet</td><td>knowledKe</td><td>also</td><td>qet=; CROK</td><td>apart</td><td>from</td><td>Allen's</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">to be accounted for =hrough an implementation.</td><td>l,\\[len 83] temporal</td><td>inference engine approach.</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">5.0</td><td colspan=\"4\">CONCLUSION</td><td/></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td>GROK</td><td>differs</td><td>from</td><td>Kamp's</td><td>discourse</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">[n this</td><td colspan=\"3\">paper,</td><td colspan=\"6\">[ argued for an integration</td><td>structures</td><td>in</td><td>that</td><td>it</td><td>uses</td><td>the</td><td>notion</td><td>of</td></tr><tr><td>of</td><td/><td colspan=\"3\">insi%hcs</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">Rained</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">from</td><td/><td>linguistic,</td><td>reference</td><td>intervals</td><td>that</td><td>are</td><td>based</td><td>on</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">psychological, and Al-based research</td><td>to provide</td><td>conventiGnal</td><td>temporal</td><td>units</td><td>(e.g.,</td><td>day,</td><td>week,</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">\u2022 a pragmatic theory and cognitive mode[ of how temporaiiry: how is an event</td><td>month,</td><td>year)</td><td>to organize</td><td>single</td><td>events</td><td>into</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"7\">defined temporal inferences in</td><td colspan=\"2\">the can</td><td colspan=\"4\">system; be explained ho~</td><td>within</td><td>chronological order.</td></tr><tr><td>the</td><td/><td colspan=\"5\">is temporal framework of</td><td colspan=\"6\">information treated computational information</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"6\">vis-a-. !.; processing. 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