Document Type
Conference Paper
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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Abstract
In this work we aim to computationally model the extent to which certain empirical factors affect spatial perspective selection as used in route-finding dialogues. In such dialogues, both interlocutors need to adopt a spatial perspective in which to describe movement direction. In map-based tasks such as the one we are concerned with, two perspective choices are typically available, i.e., route perspective, where projective terms are defined with respect to the perspective of the route follower themselves, e.g., ``go to your right'', or survey perspective, where projective terms are defined with respect to a global or allocentric perspective, e.g., ``go down'', or ``go toward the top of the screen''. Addressees must be able to assign perspectives to a given spatial term in order to correctly interpret the utterance it is contained in. However the most frequent directional terms, i.e., `left' and `right', can be used in either route or survey perspective, and perspective is not typically marked explicitly at the lexical level. Generally addressees do correctly assign perspective to projective terms, even when perspective is not indicated explicitly in language, but misunderstandings may occur and clarification is often necessary.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/2p6q-p505
Recommended Citation
Ross, R. J. & Thomas, K. E. (2010). An Empirically-Based Model for Perspective Selection in Route-Finding Dialogues. Spatial Cognition 2010, Portland, Oregon. USA. doi:10.21427/2p6q-p505
Funder
Irish Research Council for Science Education and Technology (IRCSET)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Publication Details
Poster paper presented at Spatial Cognition, 2010. Portland, Oregon. USA.