'This is a significant contribution to both formal semantics and computational linguistics, providing a situated and small world-based approach. Its event-driven representation of time and space lays the foundation for elegant formal semantics to facilitate language processing. It offers a valuable end-to-end discussion of the role of semantics annotation – from the minimal linguistic units to the automatic processing of texts. Readers will find it succinct, timely, and expansive in the topics covered.' Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Fundamentals: 1. What is a semantic annotation?; 2. Data segmentation; 3. Modeling a semantic annotation scheme; 4. Representation and serialization; 5. What does semantics do for annotation?; 6. Annotation-based semantics; Part II. Time and Events: 7. Temporal ontology; 8. Normalizing TimeML with some modifications; 9. Extending the range of temporal annotation; 10. Proper interpretation of temporal relators; Part III. Motion Space, and Time: 11. ISO-Space evolving from SpatialML; 12. Dynamic paths, projection, and orientation; 13. Toward a dynamic annotation scheme.