Experiments to examine the situated nature of geoscientific concepts

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-95

  Brodaric, Boyan ^a   Gahegan, Mark ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive semantics; Concepts; Geoscience; Ontologies; Situations

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; CONCEPTS; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; FIELD MAPPING; GEOSCIENCES; SITUATIONS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 56549089082     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875860701337934     Document Type: Article

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