Readings in qualitative reasoning about physical systems
Readings in qualitative reasoning about physical systems
C4.5: programs for machine learning
C4.5: programs for machine learning
Qualitative representation of positional information
Artificial Intelligence
Metric details for natural-language spatial relations
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations
Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations
Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning Techniques
KI '97 Proceedings of the 21st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Using Orientation Information for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Proceedings of the International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space
Calculi for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
AISMC-3 Proceedings of the International Conference AISMC-3 on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computation
Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning: An Overview
Fundamenta Informaticae - Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
Evaluation of a semantic similarity measure for natural language spatial relations
COSIT'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Spatial information theory
The endpoint hypothesis: a topological-cognitive assessment of geographic scale movement patterns
COSIT'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Spatial information theory
Cognitive invariants of geographic event conceptualization: what matters and what refines?
GIScience'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Geographic information science
COSIT'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Spatial information theory
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies
Spatial interpretations of preposition "at"
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information
The relevance of spatial relation terms and geographical feature types
PAKDD'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Pacific-Asia conference on Emerging Trends in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
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People usually use qualitative terms to express spatial relations, while current geographic information systems (GISs) all use quantitative approaches to store spatial information. The abilities of current GISs to represent and query spatial information about geographic space are limited. Based on the result of a human-subject test of natural-language descriptions of spatial relations between linear geographic objects, this paper defines a series of quantitative indices that are related to natural-language spatial relation terms, and uses these indices to formalize the ambiguous natural-language representation with a decision-tree algorithm. The result indicates that using both topological indices and metric indices can formalize the natural-language spatial predicates better than using only topological indices. The rules extracted from the trees are used to characterize the spatial relations into qualitative description groups. Using these rules, a prototype of an intelligent natural-language interface for the ESRI software ArcGIS that can query spatial relations between two linear objects in natural English language is implemented using SNePS (the Semantic Network Processing System).