Abstract
This investigation focuses on specific cue phrases given in route descriptions. Since verbal route descriptions portray the route by conveying its route segments, these segments have to be connected via semantic and pragmatic analysis for constituting a route representation. I exemplify how sequential and descriptive cue phrases given in route descriptions assist the combination of spatial information used for building up internal representations. They trigger pragmatic inferences that are used for constituting the spatial relations of route segments and for constituting expectations about the environment. These representations establish the context for (virtual) navigation.
The research reported in this paper was conducted in the project ConcEv (Conceptualizing Events), which is supported by the DFG in the priority program ‘Language Production’ under grant Ha-1237/10 to Christopher Habel.
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Tschander, L. (2003). Connecting Route Segments Given in Route Descriptions. In: Blackburn, P., Ghidini, C., Turner, R.M., Giunchiglia, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44958-2_45
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