Fictive motion extraction and classification
Language
en
Article de revue
This item was published in
International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2018, vol. 32, n° 11, p. 2247-2271
Taylor & Francis
English Abstract
Fictive motion (e.g. ‘The highway runs along the coast’) is a pervasive phenomenon in language that can imply both a staticand a moving observer. In a corpus of alpine narratives, it is used in three types of spatial ...Read more >
Fictive motion (e.g. ‘The highway runs along the coast’) is a pervasive phenomenon in language that can imply both a staticand a moving observer. In a corpus of alpine narratives, it is used in three types of spatial descriptions: conveying the actual motion of the observer, describing a vista and communicating encyclopaedic spatial knowledge. This study takes a knowledge-based approach to develop rules for automated extraction and classification of these types based on an annotated corpus of fictive motion instances. In particular, we identify the differences in the set of concepts involved into the production of the three types of descriptions, followed by their linguistic operationalization. Based on that, we build a set of rules that classify fictive motion with an overall precision of 0.87 and recall of 0.71. The article highlights the importance of examining spatially rich, naturally occurring corpora for the lines of work dealing with the automated interpretation of spatial information in texts, as well as, more broadly, investigation of spatial language involved into various types of spatial discourse.Read less <
English Keywords
GIS
Fictive motion
Automated extraction
Automated classification
Knowledge-based approach
Natural Language Processing
Origin
Hal imported