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GIS
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Natural-Language Spatial Relations Between Linear and Areal Objects: The Topology and Metric of English-Language Terms
Spatial relations are the basis for many selections users perform when they query geographic information systems (GISs). Although such query languages use natural-language-like te...
A. Rashid B. M. Shariff, Max J. Egenhofer, David M...
COGSCI
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Space Between Languages
What aspects of spatial relations influence speakers' choice of locative? This article presents a study of static spatial descriptions from 24 languages. The study reveals tw...
Michele I. Feist
NLUCS
2008
14 years 26 days ago
The Role of Attention in Understanding Spatial Expressions under the Distractor Condition
Abstract. To develop a computational model of understanding spatial expressions, various factors should be taken into account. We have been exploring the relations between the good...
Tatsumi Kobayashi, Asuka Terai, Takenobu Tokunaga
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Ontology-Based Spatial Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to enhance th...
Gaihua Fu, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty