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  <Title>TEMPORAL REASONING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF THE NARRATIVE</Title>
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FUTURE RESEARCH
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Perhaps the biggest task involved in narrative understanding is to infer, using knowledge about causality and the internal constituency of events, the missing links between narrated events and the temporal relations between them. This involves solving qualitative functional equations that hold between the parameters of described histories and resources they consume (cf. Forbus, 1985), and propagating durational constraints (of. Allen and Kautz, 1985). An analysis of the required lexical knowledge is presented in this paper and Nakhlmovsky (1987). The subject is further developed in Nakhimovsky (in preparation).</Paragraph>
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