Why do we need ECR in the age of LLMs?

Possible course project for incoming students to explore

Research Goals

  • A literature review of the fundamental understanding of events with the goal of answering the question “What is an event?”
  • After which we explore the question “What makes two events same?”
  • We then probe how ECR helps in the Question-Answering task.

Useful References

Asher, N. (1993). Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse. Springer Science & Business Media.

Bennett, J. (1988). Events and Their Names. Clarendon Press.

Davidson, D. (1969). The Individuation of Events. In N. Rescher (Ed.), Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel: A Tribute on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (pp. 216–234). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1466-2_11

Davidson, D. (2001). Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays Volume 1. Clarendon Press.

Guarino, N., Baratella, R., & Guizzardi, G. (2022). Events, their names, and their synchronic structure. Applied Ontology, 17(2), 249–283. https://doi.org/10.3233/AO-220261

Paul, S. (2020). Philosophy of Action: A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge.

Pustejovsky, J. (1991). The syntax of event structure. Cognition, 41(1), 47–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(91)90032-Y

Zacks, J. M., & Tversky, B. (2001). Event structure in perception and conception. Psychological Bulletin, 127(1), 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.127.1.3