Bidirectional interpretation of tense and aspect
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This paper describes an application of the theory of contextual interpretation described in [Pul94] to the area of English tense and aspect, partly based on the analysis in [Pul97b]. We describe an implemented system which allows a user to ask questions about the location and movements of individuals tracked by the Active Badge system [WHFG92], and which will also run in the reverse direction, using exactly the same linguistic specifications, to generate short narratives describing the same data.
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