Event Semantics &
Temporal Reasoning

Dr. Elias Vance
Dr. Elias Vance

Senior Researcher

40 min
Advanced
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Learning Objectives

Understand aspect (telic vs. atelic) and aktionsart classes in event semantic structure

Analyze systematic temporal reasoning failures in LLMs through a cognitive-linguistic lens

Apply event structure analysis to improve AI performance on temporal question-answering tasks

Evaluate current AI temporal reasoning benchmarks critically using CL theoretical criteria

How AI represents time, duration, and the internal structure of events — and why temporal reasoning remains hard.

This lesson builds on the theoretical foundations established earlier in the module and extends your understanding of how cognitive-linguistic principles apply directly to modern AI systems.

Learning Objectives

Understand aspect (telic vs. atelic) and aktionsart classes in event semantic structure

Analyze systematic temporal reasoning failures in LLMs through a cognitive-linguistic lens

Apply event structure analysis to improve AI performance on temporal question-answering tasks

Evaluate current AI temporal reasoning benchmarks critically using CL theoretical criteria

Key Concepts

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Understand aspect (telic vs. atelic) and aktionsart classes in event semantic structure

2

Analyze systematic temporal reasoning failures in LLMs through a cognitive-linguistic lens

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Apply event structure analysis to improve AI performance on temporal question-answering tasks

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