Title: Review of the Literature Related to Automatic Verb Categorization According to Aspect

Abstract:

In this presentation we first review verb grammar, in order to give context to a discussion of what verb aspect is. Following our explanation of grammatical, lexical, and coerced verb aspect, we present a set of classes used to dileneate verbs according to aspect. Next we present the motivation behind aspectual classification of verbs by examining some end-to-end application. Finally we present some attempts to automate this task, including older and more recent attempts. We also briefly discuss how aspectual classification is different from other approaches to verb classification.