Proximity in context: An empirically grounded computational model of proximity for processing topological spatial expressions

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 745-752

  Kelleher, John D ^a   Kruijff, Geert Jan M ^b   Costello, Fintan J ^c  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS; NATURAL SCENES; NEW MODEL; SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84860519269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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