Spatial orientation strongly relies on visual and whole-body information available while moving through space. As virtual environments allow to isolate the contribution of visual i...
This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik, ...
In the course of acquiring knowledge about layouts and maps spatial information can undergo considerable changes and distortions, which systematically affect knowledge-based judgme...
Representations and processes involved in judgments of spatial relations after route learning are investigated. The main objective is to decide which relations are explicitly repre...
Rainer Rothkegel, Karl Friedrich Wender, Sabine Sc...
We present a fast compression and decompression technique for natural language texts. The novelty is that the exact search can be done on the compressed text directly, using any k...
Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Zivi...