Qualitative reasoning about directions in semantic spaces

Steven Schockaert, Jae Hee Lee

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    Abstract

    We introduce a framework for qualitative reasoning about directions in high-dimensional spaces, called EER, where our main motivation is to develop a form of commonsense reasoning about semantic spaces. The proposed framework is, however, more general; we show how qualitative spatial reasoning about points with several existing calculi can be reduced to the realisability problem for EER (or REER for short), including LR and calculi for reasoning about betweenness, collinearity and parallelism. Finally, we propose an efficient but incomplete inference method, and show its effectiveness for reasoning with EER as well as reasoning with some of the aforementioned calculi.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIJCAI 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    EditorsMichael Wooldridge, Qiang Yang
    PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
    Pages3207-3213
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)9781577357384
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Event24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Duration: 25 Jul 201531 Jul 2015

    Publication series

    NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    Volume2015-January
    ISSN (Print)1045-0823

    Conference

    Conference24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015
    Country/TerritoryArgentina
    CityBuenos Aires
    Period25/07/1531/07/15

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