Interpreting Motion
Grounded Representations for Spatial Language
Series: Explorations in Language and Space; 5;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199601240
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages182 pages
- Size 240x163x17 mm
- Weight 428 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Figures, Line Drawings 0
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Short description:
Interpreting Motion shows how language structures constrain concepts of motion, analyzing the semantics of motion expressions in a range of contexts from route navigation to textual description. It is written for a broad audience including linguists, cognitive and computer scientists, and those working in GIS and artificial intelligence.
MoreLong description:
Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed. Natural language allows for efficient communication of elaborate descriptions of movement without requiring a precise specification of the motion. Interpreting Motion is the first book to analyze the semantics of motion expressions in terms of the formalisms of qualitative spatial reasoning. It shows how motion descriptions in language are mapped to trajectories of moving entities based on qualitative spatio-temporal relationships. The authors provide an extensive discussion of prior research on spatial prepositions and motion verbs, devoting chapters to the compositional semantics of motion sentences, the formal representations needed for computers to reason qualitatively about time, space, and motion, and the methodology for annotating corpora with linguistic information in order to train computer programs to reproduce the annotation. The applications they illustrate include route navigation, the mapping of travel narratives, question-answering, image and video tagging, and graphical rendering of scenes from textual descriptions.
The book is written accessibly for a broad scientific audience of linguists, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, and those working in fields such as artificial intelligence and geographic information systems.
a high-quality volume that deserves the attention of any computational linguist or cognitive scientist with an interest in qualitative spatial reasoning models, computer reasoning about motion and corpus annotation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Concepts of Motion in Language
Spatial and Temporal Ontology
The Representation of Motion
Semantic Annotation
Applications and Prospects
References
Index
