Connecting route segments given in route descriptions

  • Authors:

  • Ladina Tschander

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Hamburg, Department for Informatics, Knowledge and Language Processing, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CONTEXT'03 Proceedings of the 4th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This investigation focuses on specific cue phrases given in route descriptions. Since verbal route descriptions portray the route by conveying its route segments, these segments have to be connected via semantic and pragmatic analysis for constituting a route representation. I exemplify how sequential and descriptive cue phrases given in route descriptions assist the combination of spatial information used for building up internal representations. They trigger pragmatic inferences that are used for constituting the spatial relations of route segments and for constituting expectations about the environment. These representations establish the context for (virtual) navigation.