How Space Structures Language

Tversky, Barbara; Lee, Paul U.

doi:10.1007/3-540-69342-4_8

Cited by 134 publications

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“…Objects are located relative to other objects with known locations rather than in an absolute way, e.g. by using coordinates [27,26]. The representation of the location of an object therefore requires the object itself, one or more reference objects and their relationships [14].…”

Section: Schemamentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Spatial Knowledge for Generating Verbal and Visual Route Directions

Schuldes

Boland

Roth

et al. 2011

Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

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Abstract. Challenges in the development of state-of-the-art navigation tools involve the synchronous generation of user-tailored natural language directions and accompanying graphical representations. Of particular interest is the combination of indoor and outdoor scenarios. We describe an architecture for simultaneously generating route directions and suitable visualizations of the navigational context for walking directions. We present a representation model for 3D environments, the spatial model, and a route representation format based on OpenGIS standards, aiming at an elegant and efficient way to support users with and without knowledge about the environment.

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Section: Schemamentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Spatial Knowledge for Generating Verbal and Visual Route Directions

Schuldes

Boland

Roth

et al. 2011

Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

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“…The opposing view of linguistic universality is usually attached to the works of Chomsky (1965) and the idea of a universal grammar that underlies all languages. Most current linguists tend to take a position somewhere in between these two extremes (see for example Tversky and Lee (1998), Mark (1989) or Mark and Frank (1995)), although that still leaves plenty of space for disagreement.…”

Section: Spatial Cognition and Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Interpreting spatial language in image captions

2010

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The map as a tool for accessing data has become very popular in recent years, but a lot of data does not have the necessary spatial meta-data to allow for that. Some data such as photographs however have spatial information in their captions and if this could be extracted, then they could be made available via map-based interfaces. Towards this goal we introduce a model and spatio-linguistic reasoner for interpreting the spatial information in image captions that is based upon quantitative data about spatial language use acquired directly from people. Spatial language is inherently vague and both the model and reasoner have been designed to incorporate this vagueness at the quantitative level and not only qualitatively.

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“…the maneuver, the wayfinding choreme theory builds on cognitive conceptual primitives that structure route knowledge for wayfinding and route directions. This approach is inspired by the toolbox idea for route directions introduced by Tversky and Lee [56,55]. The term wayfinding choreme is derived from the work of the French geographer Brunet [3] who proposed a limited set of abstract models for structuring geographic phenomena; these models are termed choremes.…”

Section: Theory Of Wayfinding Choremesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban granularities—a data structure for cognitively ergonomic route directions

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This paper addresses a data structure specification for route directions that incorporates essential aspects of cognitive information processing. Specifically, we characterize levels of granularity in route directions as the result of the hierarchical organization of urban spatial knowledge. We discuss changes of granularity in route directions that result from combining elementary route information into higher-order elements (so called spatial chunking). We provide a framework that captures the pertinent aspects of spatial chunking. The framework is based on established principles used-from a cognitive perspectivefor changing the granularity in route directions. The data structure we specify based on this framework allows us to bridge the gap between results from behavioral cognitive science studies and requirements of information systems. We discuss the theoretical underpinning of the core elements of the data structure and provide examples for its application.

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How Space Structures Language

Cited by 134 publications

References 60 publications

Modeling Spatial Knowledge for Generating Verbal and Visual Route Directions

Modeling Spatial Knowledge for Generating Verbal and Visual Route Directions

Interpreting spatial language in image captions

Urban granularities—a data structure for cognitively ergonomic route directions

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