From: pat hayes (phayes@ai.uwf.edu)
Date: 10/29/02
>I forgot two things in my previous message: > >1) Yoav Shoham worked out an exhaustive taxonomy of eventuality types > as part of his Ph.D. work. Different types behave differently with > regard to whether holding over an interval implies holding at each > instant of the interval, and other such distinctions. I'm not sure > where to find the taxonomy, but we could ask Yoav. Obviously I havn't been tracking this stuff closely enough. I would be very unhappy if daml-time requires us to swallow an ontology of 'eventualities'. Seems to me that there is no need to ever introduce eventualities in a well-designed ontology; they are just the sentences that are true at a time, and if one writes things properly then they can stay being sentences. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http:/ http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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