Tim Fernando


2023

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Triadic temporal representations and deformations
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 4th Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop

Triadic representations that temporally order events and states are described, consisting of strings and sets of strings of bounded but refinable granularities. The strings are compressed according to J.A. Wheeler’s dictum it-from-bit, with bits given by statives and non-statives alike. A choice of vocabulary and constraints expressed in that vocabulary shape representations of cause-and-effect with deformations characteristic, Mumford posits, of patterns at various levels of cognitive processing. These deformations point to an ongoing process of learning, formulated as grammatical inference of finite automata, structured around Goguen and Burstall’s institutions.

2022

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Strings from neurons to language
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 3rd Natural Logic Meets Machine Learning Workshop (NALOMA III)

2019

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Projecting Temporal Properties, Events and Actions
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers

Temporal notions based on a finite set A of properties are represented in strings, on which projections are defined that vary the granularity A. The structure of properties in A is elaborated to describe statives, events and actions, subject to a distinction in meaning (advocated by Levin and Rappaport Hovav) between what the lexicon prescribes and what a context of use supplies. The projections proposed are deployed as labels for records and record types amenable to finite-state methods.

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MSO with tests and reducts
Tim Fernando | David Woods | Carl Vogel
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing

Tests added to Kleene algebra (by Kozen and others) are considered within Monadic Second Order logic over strings, where they are likened to statives in natural language. Reducts are formed over tests and non-tests alike, specifying what is observable. Notions of temporal granularity are based on observable change, under the assumption that a finite set bounds what is observable (with the possibility of stretching such bounds by moving to a larger finite set). String projections at different granularities are conjoined by superpositions that provide another variant of concatenation for Booleans.

2018

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Improving String Processing for Temporal Relations
David Woods | Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 14th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation

2017

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Towards efficient string processing of annotated events
David Woods | Tim Fernando | Carl Vogel
Proceedings of the 13th Joint ISO-ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-13)

2015

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Temporal Forces and Type Coercion in Strings
Derek Kelleher | Tim Fernando | Carl Vogel
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 2015 (FSMNLP 2015 Düsseldorf)

2014

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Incremental semantic scales by strings
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the EACL 2014 Workshop on Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics (TTNLS)

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Propositions, Questions, and Adjectives: a rich type theoretic approach
Jonathan Ginzburg | Robin Cooper | Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the EACL 2014 Workshop on Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics (TTNLS)

2013

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Finite State Methods and Description Logics
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing

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Segmenting Temporal Intervals for Tense and Aspect
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language (MoL 13)

2012

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A Finite-State Temporal Ontology and Event-Intervals
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing

2011

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Strings over intervals
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the TextInfer 2011 Workshop on Textual Entailment

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Finite-state Representations Embodying Temporal Relations
Tim Fernando
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing

1999

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Ambiguous propositions typed
Tim Fernando
Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1993

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The donkey strikes back: Extending the dynamic interpretation “constructively”
Tim Fernando
Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics