Visualising eventuality structure

Abstract

This paper describes the use of pictorial representations in showing the understanding of natural language that is about multiple or extended events. The focus is on the structure of such eventualities, and depiction of the patterns of the events within a structured eventuality. The visualisation exploits the complementarity relationship between objects and events, often noted in the literature, to map from an essentially temporal entity domain-eventualities-to a spatial one-pictorial representation of their execution structure.