temporalrelations
Temporal relations are relations that describe how events or time intervals relate to one another. They capture whether one event occurs before, after, during, or simultaneously with another, and how their durations overlap or fit together. These relations can be defined between time points (instants) or between time intervals (durations). In linguistics, temporal relations help encode the sequence of events in a sentence; in computer science, they support reasoning about schedules, histories, and time-stamped data; in philosophy and physics, they address causality and temporal order.
One widely used framework for interval-based reasoning is Allen's interval algebra, which defines thirteen basic relations
Applications include calendar and scheduling systems, natural language processing, event planning, and historical timeline construction. Temporal
Challenges include ambiguity in natural language, granularity of time units, concurrency of events, and incomplete or