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 | Mo, 10:15-11:45, INF 325 / SR 24 |
| Commitment Period | tbd. |
Participants
MA students and advanced BA students
Prerequisites 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.
Agenda
| Date | Session | Materials |
Literature
Will be made available in the first session
