Atlas.txt: Exploring linguistic grounding techniques for communicating spatial information to blind users

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-98

  Thomas, Kavita E ^a   Sripada, Somayajulu ^a   Noordzij, Matthijs L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blind users; Geo referenced spatial information; Natural language generation; Reference frame preference

Indexed keywords

BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND USERS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GEO-REFERENCED SPATIAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; REFERENCE FRAME; SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL LAYOUT; TEXT COMPREHENSIONS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84857690167     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-010-0217-5     Document Type: Article

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