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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.1
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-168865
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16886/
Aflaki, Niloofar ;
Stock, Kristin ;
Jones, Christopher B. ;
Guesgen, Hans ;
Morley, Jeremy ;
Fukuzawa, Yukio
What Do You Mean You're in Trafalgar Square? Comparing Distance Thresholds for Geospatial Prepositions
Abstract
Natural language location descriptions frequently describe object locations relative to other objects (the house near the river). Geospatial prepositions (e.g.near) are a key element of these descriptions, and the distances associated with proximity, adjacency and topological prepositions are thought to depend on the context of a specific scene. When referring to the context, we include consideration of properties of the relatum such as its feature type, size and associated image schema. In this paper, we extract spatial descriptions from the Google search engine for nine prepositions across three locations, compare their acceptance thresholds (the distances at which different prepositions are acceptable), and study variations in different contexts using cumulative graphs and scatter plots. Our results show that adjacency prepositions next to and adjacent to are used for a large range of distances, in contrast to beside; and that topological prepositions in, at and on can all be used to indicate proximity as well as containment and collocation. We also found that reference object image schema influences the selection of geospatial prepositions such as near and in.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{aflaki_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.1,
author = {Aflaki, Niloofar and Stock, Kristin and Jones, Christopher B. and Guesgen, Hans and Morley, Jeremy and Fukuzawa, Yukio},
title = {{What Do You Mean You're in Trafalgar Square? Comparing Distance Thresholds for Geospatial Prepositions}},
booktitle = {15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022)},
pages = {1:1--1:14},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-257-0},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2022},
volume = {240},
editor = {Ishikawa, Toru and Fabrikant, Sara Irina and Winter, Stephan},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16886},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-168865},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.1},
annote = {Keywords: contextual factors, spatial descriptions, acceptance model, spatial template, applicability model, geospatial prepositions}
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contextual factors, spatial descriptions, acceptance model, spatial template, applicability model, geospatial prepositions |
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15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022) |
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2022 |
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22.08.2022 |
