Grounding geographic information in perceptual operations

Grounding geographic information in perceptual operations / Simon Scheider.

Geographic information reflects ontological world views, just like any linguistic utterance. However, in comparison with spoken language, all kinds of digital information is affected by the problem of reference to an even larger extent, because of the loss of the context of speech. How can the pheno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scheider, Simon
Corporate Author: IOS Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2012.
Series:Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications ; v. 244.
Subjects:
Geographic information systems.
Ontologies (Information retrieval)
geographic information systems.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.
Geographic information systems
Systèmes d'information géographique.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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