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Modeling human concepts of object locations is essential for the development of the systems and machines that collaborate with ordinary people on spatial tasks. This paper applies a heterogeneous cardinal direction model, called \({\mathcal{HCDM}}\), to model human concepts of object locations on a plane, using its ability to illustrate where and how an object is located as seen from another with different spatial extensions. For generality, we adopt a set of formal spatial concepts defined in an existing spatial ontology called GUM. These location concepts are associated with the patterns distinguished by \({\mathcal{HCDM}}\). We also discuss the special features of our modeling approach and compare it with the modeling of location concepts by other cardinal direction models.
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Shi, H., Kurata, Y. (2010). Modeling Ontological Concepts of Locations with a Heterogeneous Cardinal Direction Model. In: Bi, Y., Williams, MA. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_4
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