Publikation
Proximity in Context: an empirically grounded computational model of proximity for processing topological spatial expressions
John Kelleher; Geert-Jan Kruijff; Fintan Costello
In: Proceedings of ACL/COLING 2006. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2006), located at International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 17-21, Sydney, Australia, ACL, 2006.
Zusammenfassung
The paper presents a new model for context-
dependent interpretation of linguistic expressions
about spatial proximity between objects in a nat-
ural scene. The paper discusses novel psycholin-
guistic experimental data that tests and verifies the
model. The model has been implemented, and en-
ables a conversational robot to identify objects in a
scene through topological spatial relations (e.g. 'X
near Y'). The model can help motivate the choice
between topological and projective prepositions.