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On the basis of a semantic analysis of dimension terms, this book develops a theory about knowledge of spatial objects, which is significant for cognitive linguistics and artificial intelligence. This new approach to knowledge structure evolves in a three-step process: - adoption of the linguistic theory with its elements, principles and representational levels, - implementation of the latter in a Prolog prototype, and - integration of the prototype into a large natural language understanding system. The study documents interdisciplinary research at work: the model of spatial knowledge is the fruit of the cooperative efforts of linguists, computational linguists, and knowledge engineers, undertaken in that logical and chronological order. The book offers a two-level approach to semantic interpretation and proves that it works by means of a precise computer implementation, which in turn is applied to support a task-independent knowledge representation system. Each of these stages is described in detail, and the links are made explicit, thus retracing the evolution from theory to practice.
List of contents
A linguistic approach to spatial knowledge.- The implementation of OSKAR.- The integration of OSKAR into the LILOG system.
About the author
Dr. Ewald Lang war nach Abschluss eines Pädagogikstudiums mehrere Jahre Verkaufs- und Managementtrainer sowie Leiter eines Händlerentwicklungsprojekts bei BMW. Zusätzlich absolvierte er ein Studium der Betriebswirtschaft und promovierte über Organisationsentwicklung im Handel. 1988 machte er sich mit der Gründung der ITO Deutschland selbständig.
