Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Computerlinguistik

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Temporal Reasoning

Module Description

Course Module Abbreviation Credit Points
BA-2010 AS-FL, AS-CL 8 LP
Master SS-CL-FAL, SS-CL-TAC 8 LP
Lecturer Michael Herweg
Module Type Hauptseminar
Language English
First Session 14.10.2024
Time and Place 10:15-11:45, INF 325 / SR 24
Commitment Period tbd.

Participants

MA students and advanced BA students

Prerequisite for Participation

Computational and Formal Semantics, Logic, Knowledge Representation, Foundations of Language Models

Assessment

Presentation and project or term paper

Content

The representation and processing of information about time is an important ingredient of virtually all applications that deal with the dynamics of processes and events, their anchoring in time, as well as their durations and temporal relations.
After an introduction to linguistic theories of temporal expressions, to the most influential apporaches to temporal information processing in logic and knowledge representation, and to the major annotation schemes and datasets employed in challenges or shared tasks about temporal information in texts, we will focus on recent developments in temporal reasoning in different domains of application, which – after periods of rule-based, classical machine learning and deep learning approaches – are currently mainly driven by Large Language Models.
We will look at the performance of recent models in simple and complex temporal reasoning tasks that are driven by applications in a wide variety of domains, such as news, medicine, traffic, finance and economy.
We will be aligning the selection of the specific focus topics with the interests of the participants.

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