基本説明
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research and robotics/AI demands an integrated examination of spatial language in dialogue settings. The present volume provides such integration for the first time and reports on the latest developments in this important field. Written in a way that will appeal to researchers across disciplines from graduate level upwards, the book sets the agenda for future research in spatial conceptualization and communication.
Full Description
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research and robotics/AI demands an integrated examination of spatial language in dialogue settings. The present volume provides such integration for the first time and reports on the latest developments in this important field. Written in a way that will appeal to researchers across disciplines from graduate level upwards, the book sets the agenda for future research in spatial conceptualization and communication.
Contents
1. Introduction - Spatial Language and Dialogue: Navigating the Domain ; 2. Why Dialogue Methods are Important for Investigating Spatial Language ; 3. Spatial Dilogue Between Partners with Mismatched Abilities ; 4. Consistency in Successive Spatial Utterances ; 5. An Interactionally Situated Analysis of What Prompts Shift in the Motion Verbs come and go in a Map Task ; 6. Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language ; 7. Formulating Spatial Descriptions Across Various Dialogue Contexts ; 8. Identifying Objects in English and German: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Spatial Reference ; 9. Explanations in Gesture, Diagram, and Word ; 10. A Computational Model for the Representation and Processing of Shape in Coverbal Iconic Gestures ; 11. Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions ; 12. Grounding Information in Route Explanation Dialogues ; 13. Telling Rolland Where to go: HRI Dialogues on Route Navigation ; References ; Index
