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Grounding geographic information in perceptual operations /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheider, Simon
Autor Corporativo: IOS Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2012.
Colección:Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications ; v. 244.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1. Introduction; Semantic heterogeneity and semantic strategies; The problem of grounding semantic descriptions of data; Scope of the thesis; Part I. The observational roots of data; Chapter 2. The necessity for grounding data; Data queries need to relate human interpretations; The indeterminacy of language interpretation; The argument of indeterminacy of empirical theories; The argument of indeterminacy of natural language use; The argument of unintended semantic domains; The argument of indistinguishability of reference
  • Grounding data as a way of coordinating its semantic interpretationChapter 3. An operational view on perception, language reference and predication; Inter-subjectivity of symbol interpretation; How conscious experience is based on Gestalt mechanisms; How language and thought adheres to perception; Language reference and contemporary semantics; An operational view on meaning and reference; Cognitive apparatus for learning referencing and predication; Cognitive operations for referencing and predication; Part II. Sources and methods for data grounding
  • Chapter 4. Constructive sources for data groundingThe construction of language referents; The arbitrariness of ontological abstractions; Abstraction means to reflect on represented actions; Observation languages and quantification as constructive tools; Ways of constructing domains of reference with logic; Reifications expressed in grounded FOL; Extensional reifications; Non-extensional reifications; Reflective abstraction using logical reification; Chapter 5. Perceptual sources for data grounding; Sources for perceptual predications; Attentional moments; Perceiving the meaningful environment
  • Identifying visual surfacesIdentifying point-like and other features; Identifying locations and geometric properties; Identifying actions, intentions and processes; Identifying affordances by simulations; Identifying colors, shapes, objects and matter; Overview of proposed observation predicates; A grounding method, its metalogical properties and application scope; Part III. Grounding geodata in the meaningful environment; Chapter 6. Constructing the meaningful environment; Constructing a geometry in the meaningful environment; Measuring angles and lengths in the meaningful environment
  • The individuation of meaningful thingsTopology of the meaningful environment; Media, substances and bodies as wholes under simple affordance; Meaningful properties: waterdepth; Meaningful media: roads and places; The meaningful environment revisited; Chapter 7. A grounded theory of road networks; Channels and what they afford; Affordance-based interpretation of road networks; Road network data models; Channel networks and channel digraphs; Affordance-based definition of a junction; Channel network features as induced subgraphs; Affordance based definition of n-way junctions