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In and on: investigating the functional geometry of spatial prepositions
Cognition, 1999Spatial prepositions such as in and on seem to denote semantically indeterminate spatial relations. This reflects, in part, the physical relationships between the objects in the scenes that they are used to portray. We argue that such physical relationships are best represented in terms of an inherently dynamic functional geometry which incorporates ...
Simon Garrod
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Quantifying spatial prepositions [PDF]
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems, 2008 Many aspects of spatial language concerned with relationships between spatial entities are essentially vague. Current GIS technology provides very little support for dealing with this vagueness, partially because there is a lack of quantitative data and models for vague spatial relations.
Mark M. Hall, Christopher B. Jones
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Annotating Spatial Interpretations of German Prepositions
2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2011Traditional approaches to prepositions classify preposition lexemes into different semantic classes like spatial, temporal or modal ones. In this paper we reconsider the so-called spatial prepositions and their sub classification. We propose a sense based classification of prepositions using traditional criteria to determine different classes of ...
Antje Müller +3 more
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The central spatial prepositions
2021This chapter reviews the chief spatial prepositions at /әt = /, which describes a position of rest, and the pair dealing with motion, consisting of major member to /tә = / and minor member from /frәm = /. It considers at, to, and from as exclusively prepositions and generally realised as proclitics, emphasizing they are never used as adverbs and the ...
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Analysing the Usage of Spatial Prepositions in Short Messages
, 2014 Spatial prepositions such as in, on and near are important to describe where things are located in relation to other geographic features. Location-based services (LBS) usually disregard such spatial prepositions. Their automatic detection and interpretation is challenging, because prepositions are quite often used in non-spatial context (e.g., “in the ...
Dittrich, André +2 more
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Language Sciences, 1996
Abstract Miller and Johnson-Laird's Language and Perception (1976) can be considered a starting point of the psychological and linguistic investigation into deictic and intrinsic spatial reference, i.e. into the use and the comprehension of spatial prepositions and their corresponding spatial concepts.
Grabowski, Joachim, Weiß, Petra
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Abstract Miller and Johnson-Laird's Language and Perception (1976) can be considered a starting point of the psychological and linguistic investigation into deictic and intrinsic spatial reference, i.e. into the use and the comprehension of spatial prepositions and their corresponding spatial concepts.
Grabowski, Joachim, Weiß, Petra
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Spatial Prepositions and Vague Quantifiers: Implementing the Functional Geometric Framework
, 2005 There is much empirical evidence showing that factors other than the relative positions of objects in Euclidean space are important in the comprehension of a wide range of spatial prepositions in English and other languages. We first the overview the functional geometric framework [11] which puts “what” and “where” information together to underpin the ...
Kenny R. Coventry +6 more
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Spatial interpretations of preposition "at"
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information, 2012The current keyword- and substring matches-based retrieval methods most search engines rely on to answer spatial queries ignore the more specific interpretations of spatial relations. Moreover, the use of the general preposition "at" in natural language queries results in underspecified locations.
Maria Vasardani +4 more
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Flexible semantic processing of spatial prepositions
Journal of Semantics, 1998This article presents two experiments investigating whether language users spontaneously apply semantic extension principles to novel usages, or whether they treat word meanings as discrete, rigidly defined entities. In Experiment I, readers made a timed decision on the correctness of a sentence.
Steven Frisson +4 more
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A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions
2022A Cognitive Perspective on Spatial Prepositions: Intertwining networks is devoted to the issue of the relation between language and thought approached from the perspective of spatial relations encoded by four equivalent spatial prepositions – English to, German zu, Polish do and Russian к.
Maria Brenda +1 more
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