Papers by Annette Herskovits
On Boundary Detection
A description is given of how edge erase of prismatic objects appear through a television camera ... more A description is given of how edge erase of prismatic objects appear through a television camera serving as visual input to a computer. Two types of edge-finding predicates are proposed and compared, one linear in intensity, the other non-linear. A statistical analysis of both is carried out, assuming input data distorted by a Gaussian noise. Both predicates have been implemented as edge-verifying procedures, ie. Procedures aiming at high sensitivity and limited to looking for edges when approximate location and directions are given. Both procedures have been tried on actual scenes. Of the two procedures the non-linear one emerged as a satisfactory solution to line-verification because it performs well in spite of surface irregularities
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Language and Spatial Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Prepositions in English
... Language and spatial cognition: An interdisciplinary study of the prepositions in English. Po... more ... Language and spatial cognition: An interdisciplinary study of the prepositions in English. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... SUBJECT(S): English language; Natural language processing (Computer science); Space and time in language; Prepositions; Data processing. ...
Ronald W. Langacker, Concept, Image, and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar
Minds and Machines, 1996
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世界, Sep 1, 2005
Comprehension and production of locatives
An Intelligent Analyser and Generator for Natural Language
After the unhappy conclusion of most early attempts at machine translation [MT], some justificati... more After the unhappy conclusion of most early attempts at machine translation [MT], some justification is required for presenting it again as a reasonable computational task. M. MINSKY (1968), among others, argued that there could be no MT without a system that, in an adequate sense, understood what it was trying to translate. The meaning structures and inference forms that constitute the present system are intended as an understanding system in the required sense, and so as justifying a new attack on an old but important problem. MT is not only an important practical task; it also has a certain theoretical significance for a model of language understanding. For it provides a clear test of the rightness or wrongness of a proposed system for representing meaning, since the output in a second language can be assessed by people unfamiliar with the internal formalism and methods employed. Few other settings for a theory of language analysis admit of such objective test: dialogue systems ar...
Space and the prepositions in English: Regularities and irregularities in a complex domain
A description is given of how edge erase of prismatic objects appear through a television camera ... more A description is given of how edge erase of prismatic objects appear through a television camera serving as visual input to a computer. Two types of edge-finding predicates are proposed and compared, one linear in intensity, the other non-linear. A statistical analysis of both is carried out, assuming input data distorted by a Gaussian noise. Both predicates have been implemented as edge-verifying procedures, ie. Procedures aiming at high sensitivity and limited to looking for edges when approximate location and directions are given. Both procedures have been tried on actual scenes. Of the two procedures the non-linear one emerged as a satisfactory solution to line-verification because it performs well in spite of surface irregularities.
On the Spatial Uses of Prepositions in English
Lingvisticae Investigationes, 1981
Spatial expressions and the plasticity of meaning
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1988
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One essential function of language is to refer to objects and situations in the world. This proce... more One essential function of language is to refer to objects and situations in the world. This process is mediated by nonlinguistic mental representations, most prominently by perceptual representations in different modalities. Human minds have the ability to establish systematic relationships between linguistic forms and perceptually based knowledge. This grounding of linguistic symbols in perceptual representations (Hamad, 1990), though often overlooked in linguistics and artificial intelligence, is essential to understanding linguistic abilities and linguistic structure. And a good way to examine it is to investigate our ability to talk about space; the spatial world seems amenable to precise and objective description — unlike, say, the world of smells and feelings — and much is known about visual and spatial perception.
Cognitive Science 9, 341-378, 1985
The paper examines locative expressions and shows that an adequate account of their meaning must ... more The paper examines locative expressions and shows that an adequate account of their meaning must be based on two essential understandings: First, the simple spatial relation, often given as the meaning of the spatial prepositions, is only an “ideal” from which there are deviations in context: second, a level of “geometric conceptualization” mediates between “the world as it is” and language. Pragmatic “near principles” are formulated to explain some deviations from the ideal and several other apparent irregularities of prepositional use. A set of “use types” of the ideal meaning is proposed to account for conventional aspects of locative meaning. The paper concludes with a discussion of the consequences of this description of locative expressions for artificial intelligence and linguistics.
Books by Annette Herskovits
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Annette Herskovits, 2009
This book is about spatial expressions and their relation to our underlying understanding of spac... more This book is about spatial expressions and their relation to our underlying understanding of space. Using both a linguistics and an artificial intelligence perspective, Annette Herskovits provides a thorough description of the meaning and use of spatial expressions, and an enlightening discussion of computer models of comprehension and production in the spatial domain. The theoretical framework is based on ideal geometric schemas adapted to real situations and a variety of contexts. This allows Herskovits to explain many previously overlooked or misunderstood irregularities, and to reveal schematizations and idealizations of the spatial world, manifested through language, which echo representations involved in perception and action.
Because spatial cognition seems a key to understanding much of the cognitive system, including language, the book addresses one of the most basic questions confronting cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and brings fresh and original insights to it.
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Books by Annette Herskovits
Because spatial cognition seems a key to understanding much of the cognitive system, including language, the book addresses one of the most basic questions confronting cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and brings fresh and original insights to it.
Book Reviews by Annette Herskovits
Because spatial cognition seems a key to understanding much of the cognitive system, including language, the book addresses one of the most basic questions confronting cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and brings fresh and original insights to it.