Quantifying spatial prepositions: An experimental study

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 451-454

  Hall, Mark M ^a   Jones, Christopher B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive geography; Experimental study; Quantitative modelling; Spatial language; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

CARDINAL DIRECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GIS SOLUTION; GIS TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE CAPTION; QUANTITATIVE DATA; REFERENCE OBJECTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ENTITIES; SPATIAL LANGUAGE; SPATIAL PREPOSITIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONS; TARGET OBJECT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449698606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463434.1463507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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