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In this paper we propose a data intensive approach for inferring sentence-internal temporal relations. Temporal inference is relevant for practical NLP applications which either extract or synthesize temporal information (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-10-10 M. Lapata , A. Lascarides

Temporal reasoning is a crucial NLP task, providing a nuanced understanding of time-sensitive contexts within textual data. Although recent advancements in LLMs have demonstrated their potential in temporal reasoning, the predominant focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chenhan Yuan , Qianqian Xie , Jimin Huang , Sophia Ananiadou

Identifying temporal relations between events is an essential step towards natural language understanding. However, the temporal relation between two events in a story depends on, and is often dictated by, relations among other events.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Qiang Ning , Zhili Feng , Dan Roth

In this paper, we develop a novel logic-based approach to detecting high-level temporally extended events from timestamped data and background knowledge. Our framework employs logical rules to capture existence and termination conditions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yvon K. Awuklu , Meghyn Bienvenu , Katsumi Inoue , Vianney Jouhet , Fleur Mougin

Temporal reasoning in multi-session dialogues presents a significant challenge which has been under-studied in previous temporal reasoning benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we propose a new evaluation task for temporal reasoning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yubin Ge , Salvatore Romeo , Jason Cai , Raphael Shu , Monica Sunkara , Yassine Benajiba , Yi Zhang

Despite significant advances, large language models (LLMs) continue to exhibit brittle performance on complex temporal reasoning tasks. This failure mode is widely attributed to inherent deficits in autoregressive logical deduction. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Tran Quang Liem

Understanding and resolving temporal references is essential in Natural Language Understanding as we often refer to the past or future in daily communication. Although existing benchmarks address a system's ability to reason about and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Svenja Kenneweg , Jörg Deigmöller , Philipp Cimiano , Julian Eggert

Temporal knowledge graph, serving as an effective way to store and model dynamic relations, shows promising prospects in event forecasting. However, most temporal knowledge graph reasoning methods are highly dependent on the recurrence or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yi Xu , Junjie Ou , Hui Xu , Luoyi Fu

Neurosymbolic (NeSy) AI has emerged as a promising direction to integrate neural and symbolic reasoning. Unfortunately, little effort has been given to developing NeSy systems tailored to sequential/temporal problems. We identify symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nikolaos Manginas , George Paliouras , Luc De Raedt

The time-changing nature of our world demands processing of huge amounts of information in fast and reliable way to generate successful behaviors. Therefore, significant brain resources are devoted to process spatiotemporal information.…

Event definitions in Complex Event Processing systems are constrained by the expressiveness of each system's language. Some systems allow the definition of instantaneous complex events, while others allow the definition of durative complex…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Manolis Pitsikalis , Alexei Lisitsa , Shan Luo

Human perception of events is intrinsically tied to distinguishing between completed (perfect and telic) and ongoing (durative) actions, a process mediated by both linguistic structure and visual cues. In this work, we introduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Olga Loginova , Sofía Ortega Loguinova

Learning causal and temporal relationships between events is an important step towards deeper story and commonsense understanding. Though there are abundant datasets annotated with event relations for story comprehension, many have no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Rujun Han , Mengyue Liang , Bashar Alhafni , Nanyun Peng

Several applications demand the timely detection of critical situations, such as threats to safety and transparency, over high-velocity streams of symbolic events. This demand has motivated the development of (i) event specification…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Periklis Mantenoglou

Despite the advanced capabilities of large language models (LLMs), their temporal reasoning ability remains underdeveloped. Prior works have highlighted this limitation, particularly in maintaining temporal consistency when understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jongho Kim , Seung-won Hwang

In-context learning is governed by both temporal and semantic relationships, shaping how Large Language Models (LLMs) retrieve contextual information. Analogous to human episodic memory, where the retrieval of specific events is enabled by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anooshka Bajaj , Deven Mahesh Mistry , Sahaj Singh Maini , Yash Aggarwal , Zoran Tiganj

Discrete event systems are present both in observations of nature, socio economical sciences, and industrial systems. Standard analysis approaches do not usually exploit their dual event / state nature: signals are either modeled as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sylvain Marié , Pablo Knecht

Intelligent software systems continuously analyze their surrounding environment and accordingly adapt their internal state. Depending on the criticality index of the situation, the system should dynamically focus or widen its analysis and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Thomas Hartmann , Francois Fouquet , Yves Le Traon , Brice Morin

Contextual reasoning with constraints is crucial for enhancing temporal consistency in cross-frame modeling for visual tracking. However, mainstream tracking algorithms typically associate context by merely stacking historical information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Fansheng Zeng , Bineng Zhong , Haiying Xia , Yufei Tan , Xiantao Hu , Liangtao Shi , Shuxiang Song

Animals exploit time to survive in the world. Temporal information is required for higher-level cognitive abilities such as planning, decision making, communication, and effective cooperation. Since time is an inseparable part of cognition,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hamit Basgol , Inci Ayhan , Emre Ugur