[Corpora-List] Temporal expression definition

[John F Sowa]

On 3/11/2014 2:54 PM, Michele Filannino wrote:
> a temporal expression is defined in...

Thanks for that list of useful references.  I'd like to add
the 60-page "Catalog of Temporal Theories" by Pat Hayes:
http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/docs/timeCatalog.pdf

At the end of that catalog, Pat includes a very important disclaimer:
> There is almost no end to the temporal structures that could be defined
> and that might be useful.  For example, this document has not considered
> intermittent intervals, or developed the idea of branching-time clocks,
> or transitivity tables for relativistic time.  However, these ideas are
> clearly capable of considerable expressive power, and I hope that the
> careful comparative development might be of some utility to future
> temporal formalizers.

In short, don't expect, imagine, or hope that any particular formulation
is, will be, or can be the final definitive word on time.

John

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