Modelling Spatial Knowledge on a Linguistic Basis: Theory - Prototype - Integration

di Ewald Lang (Autore)

Kai-Uwe Carstensen (Autore)

Geoffrey Simmons (Autore)

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 1991

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.

• Autore: Ewald Lang, Kai-Uwe Carstensen, Geoffrey Simmons
• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Anno: 1991
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 140 p.
• Dimensioni: 250 x 170 mm
• EAN: 9783540537182

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