Modelling Spatial Knowledge on a Linguistic Basis: Theory - Prototype - Integration (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 481, Band 481) - Softcover

Simmons, Geoffrey; Carstensen, Kai-Uwe; Lang, Ewald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 354053718X ISBN 13: 9783540537182

Verlag: Springer, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 354053718X
• ISBN 13: 9783540537182
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
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