Aspect is a linguistic concept that describes how an action, event, or state of a verb phrase is
situated in time. In this paper, we explore whether different transformer models are capable …

Natural languages distinguish between telic predicates that denote events leading to an
inherent endpoint (eg, draw a balloon) and atelic predicates that denote events with no …

We investigate the use of the perfect in dialogue in Dutch and–for comparison–report on
data from Dutch narrative discourse as well as on data from both registers in English. Our …

Past work in NLP has proposed the task of classifying English verb phrases into situation
aspect categories, assuming that these categories play an important role in tasks requiring …

The interpretation of the lexical aspect of verbs in English plays a crucial role for recognizing
textual entailment and learning discourse-level inferences. We show that two elementary …

We present an event structure classification empirically derived from inferential properties
annotated on sentence-and document-level Universal Decompositional Semantics (UDS) …

A broad and simple definition oflanguage'is a set of sequences constructed from a finite set
of symbols. By this definition, biological sequences, human languages, and many sequential …

Aspect, a linguistic category describing how actions and events unfold over time, is
traditionally characterized by three semantic properties: stativity, durativity and telicity. In this …

We present AutoAspect, a novel, rule-based annotation tool for labeling tense and aspect.
The pilot version annotates English data. The aspect labels are designed specifically for …

Aspectual meaning refers to how the internal temporal structure of situations is presented.
This includes whether a situation is described as a state or as an event, whether the …