INCREMENTAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION ABOUT SPATIAL RELATIONS FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS

Abstract

Ana 加 ral language precessing technique and reason 血 g techniques are united h ) create a computational model representilg the process of updating and ma 血 taining knowledge abou し spatial relations ． Assumptions and a method of incremental knowbdge acqUisition 丘om a natural language d 泊course are proposed An jnteractive system that understands sentences describing spatial reLations iS implemented．The system determiDes the re 麁rence of anaphorL expression 丘om the literal mealling ofthe 血 put and the impliCit meanjng derived f卜 om the context ． The topobgical representations of the spatial relations that