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# COSLI-2010
Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation at Spatial Cognition 2010

### Mt. Hood/Portland, Oregon, USA, August 15, 2010.

Edited by

### Robert Ross *
Joana Hois **
John Kelleher *

* Artificial Intelligence Group, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
** Spatial Cognition Research Center (SFB/TR8), University of Bremen, Germany

## Table of Contents

- Preface

1. A Probabilistic Approach to Modelling Spatial Language with Its Application To Sensor Models 1-8
   Jamie Frost, Alastair Harrison, Stephen Pulman, Paul Newman
2. Spatial Relations in Text-to-Scene Conversion 9-16
   Bob Coyne, Richard Sproat, Julia Hirschberg
3. From Language towards Formal Spatial Calculi 17-24
   Parisa Kordjamshidi, Martijn Van Otterlo, Marie-Francine Moens
4. Human Evaluation of Robot-Generated Spatial Descriptions 25-32
   Simon Dobnik, Stephen G. Pulman
5. Connecting Language and Geography with Region-Topic Models 33-40
   Michael Speriosu, Travis Brown, Taesun Moon, Jason Baldridge, Katrin Erk
6. The Occurrence and Distribution of Spatial Reference Relative to Discourse Relations 41-44
   Blake Stephen Howald
7. Interpreting Spatial Relational Nouns in Japanese 45-48
   Sumiyo Nishiguchi
8. From Data Collection to Analysis - Exploring Regional Linguistic Variation in Route Directions by Spatially-Stratified Web Sampling 49-52
   Sen Xu, Anuj Jaiswal, Xiao Zhang, Alexander Klippel, Prasenjit Mitra, Alan MacEachren
9. Spatial Relations for Positioning Objects in a Cabinet 53-56
   Yohei Kurata, Hui Shi
10. Iconic Gestures with Spatial Semantics: A Case Study 57-60
    Elizabeth Hinkelman

The whole proceedings can also be downloaded as a single file (pdf).

08-Aug-2010: submitted by Robert Ross, Joana Hois, John Kelleher
12-Aug-2010: published on CEUR-WS.org