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# COSLI-2011
Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation in conjunction with CogSci 2011

### Boston, USA, July 20, 2011.

Edited by

### Joana Hois *
Robert J. Ross **
John D. Kelleher **
John A. Bateman *,***

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

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Full Talk & Paper Contributions

1. Representing And Reasoning with Functional Knowledge for Spatial Language Understanding 1-7
   Kalyan Moy Gupta, Abraham R. Schneider, Matthew Klenk, Kellen Gillespie, Justin Karneeb
2. Interpreting Destination Descriptions in a Cognitive Way 8-15
   Yunhui Wu, Stephan Winter
3. Collecting Spatial Information for Locations in a Text-to-Scene Conversion System 16-23
   Masoud Rouhizadeh, Daniel Bauer, Bob Coyne, Owen Rambow, Richard Sproat
4. Where should I Put my Hands? Planning Hand Location in Sign Languages 24-31
   Alice Ruggeri, Cristina Battaglino, Gabriele Tiotto, Carlo Geraci, Daniele Radicioni, Alessandro Mazzei, Rossana Damiano, Leonardo Lesmo
5. Geolocating Orientational Descriptions of Landmark Configurations 32-39
   James Pustejovsky, Marc Verhagen, Anthony Stefanidis, Caixia Wang
6. Spatial Event Language across Geographic Domains 40-47
   Alexander Klippel, Sen Xu, Jinlong Yang, Rui Li

### Short Talk & Poster Contributions

7. Supporting Inferences in Space - A Wayfinding Task in a Multilevel Building 48-51
   Carsten P. J. Gondorf, Cui Jian
8. Semantic Ambiguity of Spatial Relational Nouns in Japanese 52-55
   Sumiyo Nishiguchi
9. Analyzing Directionality: From Paths to Locations 56-59
   Sander Lestrade
10. Applying Spatial Knowledge from a Scene Description Task to Question Answering 60-61
    Simon Dobnik
11. Timelines: Conceptual Integration, Emotion, and Poetic Effects 62-63
    Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, Seana Coulson, Max Jensen

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27-Jul-2011: submitted by Joana Hois, Robert J. Ross, John D. Kelleher, John A. Bateman
28-Jul-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org