The Use of Spatial Terms “Near”, “Very Near, “Next To”, “Side by Side and “Nearby” in the Descriptions of Spatial Configurations

Ferreira, Maria Engracinda dos Santos; Delazari, Luciene Stamato

doi:10.1590/s1982-21702019000200008

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“…3.14, GNU-GPL licence). Today, spatial relationships are most often identified using spatial information ( Ferreira and Delazari, 2019 ). Also, GIS and big data technologies have played an important role in many aspects of the fight against COVID-19, as indicated by Zhou et al (2020) .…”

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

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Green spaces provide people with countless intangible benefits, particularly important during crises. Restrictions imposed in many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to maintain social distance, limit travels, and even refrain from visiting green spaces and stay at home at a certain point. The survey in one of the largest cities in Poland, Kraków, was intended to help understand the impact of the pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public. The study focused on the first three stages of the pandemic in Poland, from March to November 2020. Nine weeks of the survey yielded over 1,250 responses. Responses to spatial questions were analysed with GIS tools and geoprocessing algorithms. The number of visitors to green spaces during the pandemic fell to 78.9% of the population, which is down 13.1% compared to before the pandemic. At the same time, the percentage of people refraining from the visits fell with each phase of the crisis. According to the study, residents believed green spaces to be important for their mental and physical health. Over 75% of the participants considered visits to green spaces as having a very big or big impact on stress level reduction. The work provides empirical proof of the importance of green spaces to residents, particularly during a crisis. The results can affect urban spatial policies and management of green spaces and can potentially be applied in other cities.

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A cross‐linguistic study of spatial location descriptions in New Zealand English and Brazilian Portuguese natural language

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Humans use spatial language on a daily basis, to describe locations, give directions, and ask for information about places. Better understanding of spatial language can assist in developing natural language interfaces and querying tools for GIS and web mapping. However, most previous studies focus on artificial, indoor situations. We conduct cross‐linguistic experiments to compare natural language relative location descriptions (e.g., the house beside the river) in New Zealand English (NZE) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) using eight real outdoor locations to discover the differences that occur when people describe the same location in the two languages. Our results show that NZE uses a wider range of spatial relation terms (e.g., beside) and reference objects (e.g., river) than BP, that BP uses more projective spatial relation terms than NZE, which prefers directional terms, and that translation between spatial relation terms is context‐dependent.

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The Use of Spatial Terms “Near”, “Very Near, “Next To”, “Side by Side and “Nearby” in the Descriptions of Spatial Configurations

Cited by 2 publications

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public

A cross‐linguistic study of spatial location descriptions in New Zealand English and Brazilian Portuguese natural language

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