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Spatial concepts in the conversation with a computer

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Conversing about places with a computer poses a range of challenges to current AI.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 7
July 2021
99 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3472147
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