Tagging time in prolog : the temporality effect project

  • This article combines a brief introduction into a particular philosophical theory of "time" with a demonstration of how this theory has been implemented in a Literary Studies oriented Humanities Computing project. The aim of the project was to create a model of text-based time cognition and design customized markup and text analysis tools that help to understand ‘‘how time works’’: more precisely, how narratively organised and communicated information motivates readers to generate the mental image of a chronologically organized world. The approach presented is based on the unitary model of time originally proposed by McTaggart, who distinguished between two perspectives onto time, the so-called A- and B-series. The first step towards a functional Humanities Computing implementation of this theoretical approach was the development of TempusMarker—a software tool providing automatic and semi-automatic markup routines for the tagging of temporal expressions in natural language texts. In the second step we discuss the principals underlying TempusParser—an analytical tool that can reconstruct temporal order in events by way of an algorithm-driven process of analysis and recombination of textual segments during which the "time stamp" of each segment as indicated by the temporal tags is interpreted.

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Author:Jan Christoph MeisterGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1116476
URL:http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/Suppl/107
Parent Title (German):Literary and linguistic computing
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/11/26
Year of first Publication:2005
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/26
GND Keyword:Erzähltheorie; Zeit
Volume:20
Issue:Issue Suppl.
Page Number:18
First Page:107
Last Page:124
Source:http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/20/Suppl/107; (in:) Literary and linguistic computing, 20, 2005, S. 107-124.
HeBIS-PPN:210583460
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Linguistik
BDSL-Klassifikation:03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.06.00 Literaturtheorie
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht