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A Kind Introduction to Lexical and Grammatical Aspect, with a Survey of Computational Approaches

arXiv 2208.09012 ↗First posted 18 Aug 2022cs.CLcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

Aspectual meaning refers to how the internal temporal structure of situations is presented. This includes whether a situation is described as a state or as an event, whether the situation is finished or ongoing, and whether it is viewed as a whole or with a focus on a particular phase. This survey gives an overview of computational approaches to modeling lexical and grammatical aspect along with intuitive explanations of the necessary linguistic concepts and terminology. In particular, we describe the concepts of stativity, telicity, habituality, perfective and imperfective, as well as influential inventories of eventuality and situation types. We argue that because aspect is a crucial component of semantics, especially when it comes to reporting the temporal structure of situations in a precise way, future NLP approaches need to be able to handle and evaluate it systematically in order to achieve human-level language understanding.

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  2. 2025Dynamic Relation Inference via Verb Embeddingscited by 0
  3. 2026Enhancing Structured Meaning Representations with Aspect Classificationcited by 0
  4. 2026A Scalable Tool for Measuring Manner and Result Verbs in Developmental Language Researchcited by 0
  5. 2026Modeling the Developmental Shift in Telicity Acquisitioncited by 0