#19068A proposal to deal with French tenses in the framework ofDiscourse Representation Theory is presented, as it has been implemented for a fragment at the IMS.
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fragment at the IMS . It is based on the
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theory of tenses
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of H. Kamp and Ch . Rohrer . Instead
#19091It is based on thetheory of tenses of H. Kamp and Ch. Rohrer.
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preceeding text . Thereby a system of
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relevant times
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provided by the preceeding text and
#19163Thereby a system ofrelevant times provided by the preceeding text and by the temporal adverbials of the sentence being processed is used.
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by the preceeding text and by the
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temporal adverbials
</term>
of the
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sentence
</term>
being
#19173Thereby a system of relevant times provided by the preceeding text and by thetemporal adverbials of the sentence being processed is used.
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<term>
operators
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to express the
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meaning
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of the
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tenses
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the Reichenbachian
#19109Instead of using operators to express themeaning of the tenses the Reichenbachian point of view is adopted and refined such that the impact of the tenses with respect to the meaning of the text is understood as contribution to the integration of the events of a sentence in the event structure of the preceeding text.