Spatial Language Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
People constantly talk to each other about experience or knowledge resulting from spatial perception; they describe the size, shape, orientation and position of objects using a wide range of spatial expressions. The semantic treatment of such expressions presents particular challenges for natural la...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Reasoning about Shape using the Tangential Axis Transform or the Shape’s “Grain”
- 2. A Conceptual Model for Representing Verbal Expressions used in Route Descriptions
- 3. Resolving Ambiguous Descriptions through Visual Information
- 4. An Anthropomorphic Agent for the Use of Spatial Language
- 5. Gesture, Thought, and Spatial Language
- 6. Organization of Temporal Situations
- 7. Grounding Meaning in Visual Knowledge. A Case Study: Dimensional Adjectives
- 8. Understanding How We Think about Space
- 9. The Real Story of “Over”?
- 10. Generating Spatial Descriptions from a Cognitive Point of View
- 11. Multiple Frames of Reference in Interpreting Complex Projective Terms
- 12. Goal-Directed Effects on Processing a Spatial Environment. Indications from Memory and Language
- 13. Memory for Text and Memory for Space. Two Concurrent Memory Systems?
- Author index