... Events, and Relations An important property of a natural language system is that it often has only partial information about the individuals (objects, events, and relations) that are talked about. ... representation by introducing the predicate ROLE and making rolenames into individuals in the domain. ROLE(o, r, v) asserts that individual o has a role named r that is filled with individual ... define a predicate, DURING (a, b), that is true only if interval a is wholly contained in interval b. Now, if we want the retriever to automatically infer that if relation R holds during an interval...