We see a need for research bringing spatial intelligence into the fundamental mechanisms of parsing and interpreting place descriptions. An intelligent navigation service will have capabilities to imitate human route communication behavior (Winter and Wu, 2009), thus, at least the capabilities to make sense of place descriptions.
@InProceedings{wu_et_al:DagSemProc.10131.4, author = {Wu, Yunhui and Winter, Stephan}, title = {{Interpreting Place Descriptions for Navigation Services}}, booktitle = {Spatial Representation and Reasoning in Language : Ontologies and Logics of Space}, pages = {1--3}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2011}, volume = {10131}, editor = {John A. Bateman and Anthony G. Cohn and James Pustejovsky}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10131.4}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27302}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.10131.4}, annote = {Keywords: Place descriptions, natural language, navigation} }
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