Cultural differences of spatial descriptions in tourist guidebooks

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3343, Issue , 2005, Pages 147-164

  Suzuki, Koshiro ^a   Wakabayashi, Yoshiki ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS; TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 26444484460     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32255-9_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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