Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning
Module Description
| Course | Module Abbreviation |
Credit Points |
Module Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA-2010 | AS-CL, AS-FL | 8 LP | 1xCS-CL v 1xBS-CL |
| BA-2010[100%|75%] | CS-CL | 6 LP | FLA, FF-FM, ICL |
| BA-2010[50%] | BS-CL | 6 LP | FLA, FF-FM |
| Master | SS-CL-TAC, SS-SC-FAL | 8 LP | - |
| BA-2026 | AS-CL | 8 LP | 1xCS-CL v 1xBS-CL |
| BA-2026[100%|75%] | CS-CL | 6 LP | FLA, FF-M, ICL |
| BA-2026[50%] | BS-CL | 6 LP | FLA, FF-M, ICL |
| Lecturer | Michael Herweg |
| Module Type | Hauptseminar / Proseminar |
| Language | Englisch |
| First Session | 12.10.2026 |
| Time and Place | Monday, 14:15 - 15:45 INF 289 / SR 1 |
Participants
All advanced CL Bachelor students and all CL master students. Students from MSc Data and Computer Science or MSc Scientific Computing with Field of Application Computational Linguistics are welcome after getting permission from the lecturer. MSc Scientific Computing students can only take the course as HS for 8 LP. If the seminar should be oversubscribed, CL students will have priority.Prerequisites for Participation
- Module Prerequisites
- Logical and Mathematical Foundations of CL
- Formal Semantics
- basic understanding of ML and LLMs
Assessment
Presentation and project or term paper
Contents
The representation and processing of information about spatial and temporal entities, their movements, configurations, and underlying causal or directional relations is an important ingredient of systems of physical commonsense understanding, temporal and geographic information extraction, multi-modal understanding etc. with applications in diverse domains such as medical time-series analysis, traffic monitoring, environmental risk analysis, logistics and many more.
After an introduction to the most influential theories of spatial and temporal representations in linguistics and cognitive science, the relevant formal calculi (such as Allen’s Interval Algebra, RCC-8 and Dynamic Interval Temporal Logic) and the major datasets employed in benchmarks for spatial and temporal question answering, we will focus on recent developments in spatio-temporal reasoning and grounding in different domains of application.
