A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2473255, 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 conventwnal imagery are used as a metric for the design of our own conceptual representation.}, address = {Morristown, NJ, USA}, author = {Olivier, Patrick and Tsujii, Jun-Ichi}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics}, citeulike-article-id = {2473255}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=981732.981774}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981732.981774}, doi = {10.3115/981732.981774}, keywords = {cognitive-linguistics, semantic, spatial-prepositions}, pages = {303--309}, posted-at = {2008-10-04 21:16:49}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, title = {A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981732.981774}, year = {1994} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2473255 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2473255 N2 - 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 conventwnal imagery are used as a metric for the design of our own conceptual representation. AD - Morristown, NJ, USA EP - 309 TI - A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions PB - Association for Computational Linguistics T2 - Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics SP - 303 KW - cognitive-linguistics KW - semantic KW - spatial-prepositions AU - Olivier, Patrick AU - Tsujii, Jun-Ichi PY - 1994/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981732.981774 ER -