Time Representation and Reasoning for a Story-telling Web Tool—the State of the Art

{giovanni.degasperis, tania.dimascio} @ univaq.it Abstract: We are working on a story-telling web tool for primary-school classes. The tool should allow teachers to create or modify short stories, and elaborate temporal reasoning games that stimulate children to reason on the time dimension of stories. In this paper, we review the major theories and tools for qualitative temporal reasoning, studying two facets of time, relevant for such a tool: representation and reasoning