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On Defining Motion Verbs and Spatial Prepositions

1990
In a computational system for describing and understanding descriptions of spatial relations and motion events in natural language (city scenes or soccer games, for example), there is a need for a referential semantics of motion verbs and spatial prepositions that is both structurally coherent and (ideally) general enough to be used for both ...
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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, Richter, Daniela, Lucas, Christian   +2 more
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Before or After: Prepositions in Spatially Constrained Systems

2007
Cognitive agents use different strategies to identify relevant spatial information in communication. The chosen strategy depends on the agents' conceptualization of the spatial situation at hand. This situation is determined by structural and functional aspects that are induced by the environment and the actions performed or intended therein.
Kai-Florian Richter, Alexander Klippel
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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 ...
Coventry, Kenny R., Cangelosi, Angelo, Rajapakse, Rohanna, Bacon, Alison, Newstead, Stephen, Joyce, Dan, Richards, Lynn V.   +6 more
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Interpretation of the Spatial Prepositions 'in front of' and 'behind'

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1981
Children aged 4 to 9 years and adults were asked to place a cube or a ball 'in front of or 'behind' a featuredor a nonfeatured-object. Although most children and adults responded on the basis of the inherent features of the object, a significant number of adults responded to the observer orientation cue.
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Enhancing English spatial prepositions acquisition among Spanish learners of English as L2 through an embodied approach

IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2023
Mostafa Boieblan
exaly  

Complex Concepts as Determinators of Prepositional Meaning: The Case of Italian Spatial Prepositions

Meaning in Language – From Individual to Collective, 2019
Using as empirical evidence the outcome of a qualitative semantic analysis carried out on Italian spatial prepositions, the author makes the case for the idea that the most adequate way to account for prepositional meanings (which often diversify even within the domain of space) consists in postulating the underlying complex concepts that are composed ...
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The Acquisition of the English Spatial Prepositions: in, on, and at by Saudi EFL Students

Word, 2023
Reham Alhammad
exaly  

An empirical study of the semantic similarity of geospatial prepositions and their senses

Spatial Cognition and Computation, 2023
Kristin Stock, Christopher B Jones
exaly  

Geometrical Semantics for Spatial Prepositions

Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1989
Colleen Crangle, Patrick Suppes
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