The Language of Time: A Reader

This reader collects and introduces important work on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: for instance, whether an event is past, present, or future; whether it is real or hypothetical; when it occurred; and how long it lasted. In focussing on the treatment and retrieval of time-based information it seeks to lay the foundation for temporally-aware natural language computer processing systems, such as those that process documents on the worldwide web to a…