The Logical Form of Action Sentences

By D. L. Davidson. 2001

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Deriving the Functional Hierarchy (2014, background): “The tradition of recognizing events in linguistic semantics goes back to Davidson (1967). However, note that we depart substantially from Davidson in our particular conception of events, which for us are atemporal (see Gawron 2006 on events mapped onto scales other than time).”
Nonmonotonic causal theories (2004, background): “6) is an old idea in linguistic representations, originally due to Davidson [5].”
The Light Verb Jungle (2003, background): “Davidsonian (and Neo-Davidsonian) event semantics (Davidson 1967, Parsons 1990) for example, allowone to manipulate events (or eventualties, Bach 1986), but not anything “smaller”.”
Weakly Supervised Learning of Semantic Parsers for Mapping Instructions to Actions (2013, methodology): “, Winograd (1972), Di Eugenio and White (1992), Webber et al. (1995), Bugmann et al.”
A Discriminative Graph-Based Parser for the Abstract Meaning Representation (2014, methodology): “The formalism is based on propositional logic and neo-Davidsonian event representations (Parsons, 1990; Davidson, 1967).”