Schedule for Computational Models of Events
TIME: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- FRIDAY (August 10, 2018): Event Structure above the Sentence
- Text-level event interpretation and the problem of temporal ordering
- 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
