We argue that Chinese Sign Language (CSL) provides new insights into temporal anaphora, as well puzzles. Partee 1973 showed talk in English involves abstract anaphoric mechanisms akin to pronouns, although with a very different form. Schlenker 2013 argued American (ASL), one and the same overt pronominal form, pointing sign, can have individual uses, but his data involved loci across domains: n...

THE BO DIDDLEY BEAT Much of the world’s traditional and contemporary music makes use of characteristic rhythms called timelines. A timeline is a distinguished rhythmic ostinato, a rhythm that repeats throughout a piece of music with no variation, that gives the particular flavor of movement of the piece that incorporates it, and that acts as a timekeeper and structuring device for the musicians...

We present an approach for detecting salient (important) dates in texts in order to automatically build event timelines from a search query (e.g. the name of an event or person, etc.). This work was carried out on a corpus of newswire texts in English provided by the Agence France Presse (AFP). In order to extract salient dates that warrant inclusion in an event timeline, we first recognize and...

Recent advances technology have dramatically increased production and consumption of digital media such as audio. The intrinsically time-based nature of audio, however, presents unique problems, in particular with navigation. Unfortunately, audio navigation interfaces do not differ widely from the decades-old tape recorder metaphors. In this paper, we discuss our current work in exploring audio...

The MEDIANEUM project consists in an interactive installation allowing an audience to explore a timeline and access informational data such as texts, images and video. Through a Microsoft Kinect depth sensor, users’ skeletons are captured and their gestures are tracked to interact with the data presented on a screen, made using Processing for faster prototyping, This part of the workflow is bei...

Biological curation, or biocuration, is often studied from the perspective of creating and maintaining databases that have the goal of mapping and tracking certain areas of biology. However, much biocuration is, in fact, dedicated to finite and time-limited projects in which insufficient resources demand trade-offs. This typically more ephemeral type of curation is nonetheless of importance in ...