Spatial Cognition and Computation
Object Configuration Reconstruction from Incomplete Binary Object Relation Descriptions
KI '08 Proceedings of the 31st annual German conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
SC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Spatial cognition
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The assessment of whether a statement is consistent with what has gone before is ubiquitous in discourse comprehension. One theory of the process is that individuals search for a mental model of a situation in which all the statements in the discourse are true. In the case of spatial descriptions, individuals should prefer to construct models, which retain the information in the description. Hence, they should use strategies that retain information in an efficient way. If the descriptions are consistent with multiple models then they are likely to run into difficulties. We report some preliminary results of experiments in which the participants judged the consistency of spatial descriptions. The participants made more errors when later assertions in the description conflicted with the preferred models of earlier assertions.