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At Spatial Cognition 2010August 15 2010Mt. Hood/Portland Oregon |
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Competence in spatial language processing requires that we assign appropriate meaning to spatial terms such as projective, perspective, topological, distance, and path descriptive markers. However, the same preposition can have multiple meanings, and such variance must be handled through either underspecified models that can be stretched to particular situations, or models which incorporate multiple disparate meanings that are assigned to terms as a situation invites, or models that take into account vague interpretations in situated contexts. While early models of spatial term interpretation focused on the geometric interpretation of spatial language, it is now widely recognized that spatial term meaning is also dependent on functional and pragmatic features. Competent models of spatial language must thus draw on complex models of situated meaning, and while some early proposals exist it is not at all clear how geometric, functional and pragmatic features should be integrated in computational models of spatial language interpretation. The aim of this workshop is to draw together the often orthogonal views on formal symbolic and embodied spatial language interpretation in order to foster theories which adequately draw on both geometric and functional spatial language meaning.
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