Name: modelling spatial knowledge on a linguistic basis
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Author: lang,carstensen,simmons
ISBN: 9783540537182

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modelling spatial knowledge on a linguistic basis

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Springer

Author

lang,carstensen,simmons

Language

English

Pages

138

ISBN

354053718X

ISBN13

9783540537182

Synopsis "modelling spatial knowledge on a linguistic basis"

on the basis of a semantic analysis of dimension terms, this book develops a theory about knowledge of spatial objects, which is significant for cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence. this new approach to knowledge structure evolves in a three-step process: - adoption of the linguistic theory with its elements, principles and representational levels, - implementation of the latter in a prolog prototype, and - integration of the prototype into a large natural language understanding system. the study documents interdisciplinary research at work: the model of spatial knowledge is the fruit of the cooperative efforts of linguists, computational linguists, and knowledge engineers, undertaken in that logical and chronological order. the book offers a two-level approach to semantic interpretation and proves that it works by means of a precise computer implementation, which in turn is applied to support a task-independent knowledge representation system. each of these stages is described in detail, and the links are made explicit, thus retracing the evolution from theory to practice.