Schedule for Computational Models of Events

TIME: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  1. MONDAY (August 6, 2018): The Role of Events in Language, Cognition, and Computation
    • Definitions of event from different fields
      • linguistics, logic, AI, psychology, robotics, computational linguistics
    • Constituents of events
      • frame structure, participants, inter-particpant relations
    • Temporal Characterization of Events
      • measurement, quantity, order
    • Event Localization and Situating Events
      • spatial anchoring, locus, aspect
    • Objects and Latent Event Structure
      • qualia structure, affordances, habitats
  2. TUESDAY (August 7, 2018): Atomic Theories of Events
    • Davidsonian Models of Events for Linguistics
      • Davidson, Parsons, Bach, Landman, Krifka
    • Events for logical reasoning and planning in AI
      • situation calculus, event calculus, McDermott
    • Robust reasoning with events in natural language text
  3. WEDNESDAY (August 8, 2018): Sub-atomic and Dynamic Models of Events
    • Moens and Steedman (1988), Pustejovsky (1991)
    • Dynamic Logic
    • Fernando’s Finite State Event Logic
    • Naumann’s (2000) Dynamic Event Semantics, Pustejovsky and Moszkowicz’s (2011) DITL
  4. THURSDAY (August 9, 2018): Situational Grounding of Events
    • Event and object Embodiment: affordances, qualia
    • Event Localization and Habitat Theory
    • Narratives for Objects: latent event structure
  5. FRIDAY (August 10, 2018): Event Structure above the Sentence
    • Text-level event interpretation and the problem of temporal ordering
      • Allen’s logic, TimeML,
    • Event Interpretation in Discourse:
      • Hobbs Discourse Theory
      • Rhetorical Structure Theory
      • Segmented Discourse Representation Theory
    • Narratives, Scripts, and Stories
      • Schank and Lehnert’s Script Theory
      • Narrative Schema (Chambers and Jurafsky)
      • Schemas and stories