2025
Deep Temporal Reasoning in Video Language Models: A Cross-Linguistic Evaluation of Action Duration and Completion through Perfect Times
ACL 2025long
Human perception of events is intrinsically tied to distinguishing between completed (perfect and telic) and ongoing (durative) actions, a process mediated by both linguistic structure and visual cues. In this work, we introduce the Perfect Times dataset, a novel, quadrilingual (English, Italian, Ru…