The historical present tense yet again: Tense switching and narrative dynamics in oral and quasi-oral storytelling

Quasi-Narrative: The Function of Preterit Tense Verbs and Temporal Adverbials in Non-Narrative Texts*

Tense and Aspect Assignment in Narrative Discourse

We describe a method for assigning English tense and aspect in a system that realizes surface text for symbolically encoded narratives. Our testbed is an encoding interface in which propositions that are attached to a timeline must be realized from several temporal viewpoints. This involves a mapping from a semantic encoding of time to a set of tense/aspect permutations. The encoding tool reali...

Tony Roberts Favour the present tense

I recommend the rule “if in doubt use the present tense”. Higham (1998), [1], §4.29 The present tense works well for scientific writing. The eternal truths we present in an article should all be in the present tense: instead of “experiments have shown that”, prefer “experiments show that”. The present tense helps make more active writing. Write derivations in the present tense: not the past ten...

Lecture 2 : Time , tense , and tense - logic ∗

Annotating "tense" in a Tense-less Language

In the context of Natural Language Processing, annotation is about recovering implicit information that is useful for natural language applications. In this paper we describe a “tense” annotation task for Chinese, a language that does not have grammatical tense, that is designed to infer the temporal location of a situation in relation to the temporal deixis, the moment of speech. If successful...