An influence model for reference object selection in spatially locative phrases

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5248 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 216-232

  Barclay, Michael ^a   Galton, Antony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Locative; Reference; Spatial

Indexed keywords

INFERENCE ENGINES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN; INFLUENCE MODELS; LOCATIVE; MACHINE LEARNINGS; REFERENCE; REFERENCE OBJECTS; SPATIAL; WAY FINDINGS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 56549084348     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87601-4_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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