Pointing to Places in a Deductive Geospatial Theory

Citation

Waldinger, R., Jarvis, P., and Dungan, J. Pointing to Places in a Deductive Geospatial Theory, in Workshop on Analysis of Geographical References; Human Language Technology Conference , Edmonton, Canada, pp. 10–17, May–Jun 2003.

Abstract

Issues in the description of places are discussed in the context of a logical geospatial theory. This theory lies at the core of the system GeoLogica, which deduces answers to geographical questions based on knowledge provided by multiple agents.

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