{"title":"Why Dialogue Methods are Important for Investigating Spatial Language","authors":"Matthew Watson, M. Pickering, H. Branigan","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199554201.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199554201.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133540260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspective alignment in spatial language","authors":"L. Steels, Martin Loetzsch","doi":"10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199554201.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199554201.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"It is well known that perspective alignment plays a major role in the planning and interpretation of spatial language. In order to understand the role of perspective alignment and the cognitive processes involved, we have made precise complete cognitive models of situated embodied agents that self-organise a communication system for dialoging about the position and movement of real world objects in their immediate surroundings. We show in a series of robotic experiments which cognitive mechanisms are necessary and sufficient to achieve successful spatial language and why and how perspective alignment can take place, either implicitly or based on explicit marking.","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126498159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Dialogue between Partners with Mismatched Abilities","authors":"M. F. Schober","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125432493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Computational Model for the Representation and Processing of Shape in Coverbal Iconic Gestures 1","authors":"Timo Sowa, I. Wachsmuth","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"When humans describe the shape of objects, they often use iconic gestures to depict what they want to convey to a listener. Gesturing gives them the ability to express spatial concepts directly in the spatial medium and thus provides an important communicative resource for spatial language. In order to harvest this resource in language comprehension systems, the composite signal conveyed in two different media has to be re-integrated to a common, unified meaning. In a corpus study, we examined the morphological variety of shape-related iconic gestures and the kind of shape information they express. We distinguish four sub-types of iconic gestures and show that the most frequent type, called dimensional gestures, and the lexical affiliates they co-occur with, contain information about an object’s spatial extent, the course of its boundary, and the spatial relations between object parts. An analysis of the verbal utterances shows that adjectives and nouns are predominant among the lexical affiliates in our scenario. Based on the empirical results, a computational model for the representation and processing of multimodal shape descriptions is proposed.","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115722514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristina Striegnitz, Paul Tepper, A. Lovett, Justine Cassell
{"title":"Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions","authors":"Kristina Striegnitz, Paul Tepper, A. Lovett, Justine Cassell","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"When humans give route directions, they use gestures to indicate the location of landmarks. The form of these gestures reflects that speakers take one of several perspectives when producing them. They may locate the landmark with respect to the speaker, with respect to the person following the route, or with respect to other landmarks. A corpus study shows that which perspective is chosen is partly determined by the function of the discourse segment these gestures occur in. Since locating gestures are so prevalent in direction-giving, in this paper we address the kinds of dialogue information and knowledge representation that is needed to generate them automatically.","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126951224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Formulating Spatial Descriptions across Various Dialogue Contexts","authors":"Laura A. Carlson, P. Hill","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132118199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction - Spatial Language and Dialogue: Navigating the Domain","authors":"K. Coventry, T. Tenbrink, J. Bateman","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115052568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grounding Information in Route Explanation Dialogues","authors":"Philippe Muller, Laurent Prévot","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"We have studied the role of several factors influencing the grounding of information in a French corpus of direction-giving dialogues. We focused on how speakers agree on specific locations that are parts of a route explanation. Spatial knowledge is thus seen here as a means of a precise semantic analysis of a certain type of dialog act (feedback responses). We show here the different kinds of feedbacks that can be accounted for by our data, looking at the type of lexical cues in utterances, the type of dialog act targeted by the feedback and the span of the conversation that falls under the scope of such a feedback. Dialog acts also depend on the type of spatial descriptions that are used (motion description, introduction of landmarks or description of landmarks). We then propose an interpretation of this as different mechanisms for speakers' agreement.","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128768451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying Objects in English and German: a Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Spatial Reference 1","authors":"T. Tenbrink","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"In Tenbrink (2005a), I presented the results of a web study addressing English native speakers' strategies in a scenario that enhances reference via spatial contrast. The present study compares the results for English with those obtained for German, focusing on speakers' linguistic preferences concerning syntactic forms and modifications. Results confirm previously identified communicative principles underlying speakers' choices, and additionally point to a number of systematic differences in speakers' choices, which can in part be explained by differences in language structure.","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132357710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interactionally Situated Analysis of What Prompts Shift in the Motion Verbs Come and Go in a Map Task","authors":"A. Filipi, R. Wales","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554201.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":207399,"journal":{"name":"Spatial Language and Dialogue","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123609869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}