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The aim of this work is to describe (part of) a system able to visualize natural language descriptions of complex scenes. Indefinitely many objects may take part in the scenario and are introduced one at any time with their relative positions (expressed as a certain number of spatial predicates). The specific goal of this paper is to specify which reasoning needs to be done between the input natural language descriptions and the visualization of the scene. The key idea of our approach is to use both a declarative representation of space based on first order logic, and a procedural one based on a semantic network. The two representations are linked defining the semantic network to be the intended model of the first order theory. The first order and the semantic network based descriptions can be respectively regarded as the system mental-logic model and mental model of the scenario.
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Giunchiglia, E., Armando, A. (1993). Mental-Model and Mental-Logic based Reasoning about Space. In: Sorensen, H. (eds) AI and Cognitive Science ’91. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3562-3_17
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