Automatic Inference of the Tense of Chinese Events Using Implicit Linguistic Information

Chinese Tense Labelling and Causal Analysis

This paper explores the role of tense information in Chinese causal analysis. Both tasks of causal type classification and causal directionality identification are experimented to show the significant improvement gained …

Buy one get one free: Distant annotation of Chinese tense, event type and modality

We describe a {``}distant annotation{''} method where we mark up the semantic tense, event type, and modality of Chinese events via a word-aligned parallel corpus. We first map Chinese verbs to their English counterparts…

LLMs Struggle with NLI for Perfect Aspect: A Cross-Linguistic Study in Chinese and Japanese

Unlike English, which uses distinct forms (e.g., had, has, will have) to mark the perfect aspect across tenses, Chinese and Japanese lack separate grammatical forms for tense within the perfect aspect, which complicates …

Are Neural Networks Extracting Linguistic Properties or Memorizing Training Data? An Observation with a Multilingual Probe for Predicting Tense

We evaluate the ability of Bert embeddings to represent tense information, taking French and Chinese as a case study. In French, the tense information is expressed by verb morphology and can be captured by simple surface…

One Tense per Scene: Predicting Tense in Chinese Conversations