Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2023
Publication Title
CAOS VII: Cognition and Ontologies, 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023)
Abstract
This short paper continues work on primitive decomposition systems for meaning representation which combine image schemas and conceptual dependency primitive systems. An important thread of this research seeks small abstract sets of conceptual primitives so that decompositions of imagery evoked by language give rise to rich sets of mappings between language and the language-free representations, reflecting the linguistic variation of human language behavior. In this brief paper, we present a proposal for novel primitive decompositions of positions, spatial relationships, and orientations of objects in space in a conceptual representation framework. As an abstract first approximation, we introduce a spatial primitive which represents that one object is positioned in between two other objects, and combine it with part-whole representations to decompose commonly referenced concepts and language expressions of the positions and orientations of objects in relation to their surroundings.
Keywords
Conceptual Dependency, Image Schemas, Conceptual Representations, Formal Modeling
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Recommended Citation
Macbeth, Jamie C.; Zhou, Mackie; and Zhao, Zoie, "A Proposal for Primitive Decomposition of Spatial Orientation Relationships" (2023). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/392
Comments
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CAOS VII: Cognition and Ontologies, 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2023), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, July 19-20, 2023.