A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions

Patrick Olivier; Jun Ichi Tsujii

A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions

Patrick Olivier
, Jun Ichi Tsujii

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Abstract

This paper outlines the linguistic semantic commitments underlying an application which automatically constructs depictions of verbal spatial descriptions. Our approach draws on the ideational view of linguistic semantics developed by Ronald Langacker in his theory of Cognitive Grammar, and the conceptual representation of physical objects from the two-level semantics of Bierwisch and Lang. In particular the dimensions of the process of conventional imagery are used as a metric for the design of our own conceptual representation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1994
Pages	303-309
Number of pages	7
Volume	1994-June
Publication status	Published - 1994
Externally published	Yes
Event	Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics 1994 - Las Cruces, United States of America Duration: 27 Jun 1994 → 30 Jun 1994 Conference number: 32nd

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ISSN (Print)	0736-587X

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Conference	Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics 1994
Abbreviated title	ACL 1994
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Las Cruces
Period	27/06/94 → 30/06/94

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A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions. / Olivier, Patrick; Tsujii, Jun Ichi.
32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 1994. Vol. 1994-June 1994. p. 303-309 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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