On the basis of a semantic analysis of dimension terms, this book develops a theory about knowledge of spatial objects, which is significant for cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence. This new approach to knowledge structure evolves in a three-step process: - adoption of the linguistic theory with its elements, principles and representational levels, - implementation of the latter in a Prolog prototype, and - integration of the prototype into a large natural language understanding system. The study documents interdisciplinary research at work: the model of spatial knowledge is the fruit of the cooperative efforts of linguists, computational linguists, and knowledge engineers, undertaken in that logical and chronological order. The book offers a two-level approach to semantic interpretation and proves that it works by means of a precise computer implementation, which in turn is applied to support a task-independent knowledge representation system. Each of these stages is described in detail, and the links are made explicit, thus retracing the evolution from theory to practice.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783540537182
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-540-53718-2
- Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.02.1991
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1991
- Serie: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 242 g
- Seiten: 140
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 9 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt