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Qualitative techniques are important in spatio-temporal reasoning and in artificial intelligence in general. The Cardinal Direction Calculus (CDC) is one of the classic formalisms which represents the spatial relations between objects whose positions are described in the reference to the geographical directions. This particular model may be used in many systems also in the applications which are based on natural language input. In this paper we discuss the problem of generating an intuitive, simple and quickly understood answer to specific question concerning spatial relations asked by a user of a system. We present the results of the linguistic experiment which was performed to analyse human language competence in describing space.
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Osiński, J. (2011). Acquisition of Spatial Relations from an Experimental Corpus. In: Vetulani, Z. (eds) Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20095-3_36
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