Computational Models of Events Lecture 5: Events above the Sentence: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Computational Models of Events Lecture 5: Events above the Sentence: Discourse and Narratives James Pustejovsky Brandeis University ESSLLI 2018 Summer School Sofia, Bulgaria August 6-10, 2018 1/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Today’s Outline Events in Discourse Structure Global Temporal Ordering of Events in Text Narrative Event Structures Latent Event Structure 1/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Abductive Interpretation of Discourse Events Hobbs et al (1988) - Slides from Alex Lascarides � 2/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Interpretation 3/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Solving Pragmatics by Abduction 4/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

The Algorithm 5/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

The Role of Abduction in Interpreting Utterances 6/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Proving a Discourse 7/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Rules for (3) 8/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Occasion 9/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Parallel 10/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Elaboration 11/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Proving an Elaboration 12/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Proving Explanation 13/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Proving the Causal Relation 14/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

The Proof Graph 15/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

The Problem of Choice in Abduction 16/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Abductive Interpretation of Discourse Events Hobbs (1983) 17/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models

Abductive Interpretation of Discourse Events Hobbs (1983) 18/123 Pustejovsky - Brandeis Computational Event Models