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Talking About Place Where it Matters

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This chapter poses questions towards a smart geographic communication: What is required to allow a person to talk to a machine in a natural way about geographic space, without learning a particular interface or structured form of dialog? And can the machine respond in a manner that a person would accept as human-like communication in its capacity of considering context? Where are the gaps in our current knowledge, for example as implemented in current systems, and where is more research needed?

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Brian Marwick, Yvonne Thompson, Greg Windsor and Laura Kostanski for valuable discussions in earlier stages, and the participants at Las Navas 2010 and anonymous reviewers for feedback on drafts of these ideas. Also funding from the Australian Research Council, DP0878119 and LP100200199, is acknowledged.

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Winter, S., Truelove, M. (2013). Talking About Place Where it Matters. In: Raubal, M., Mark, D., Frank, A. (eds) Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34359-9_7

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