@misc{cogprints1558, editor = {Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt}, title = {A Contribution to Reference Semantics of Spatial Prepositions: The Visualization Problem and its Solution in VITRA}, author = {J{\"o}rg R.J. Schirra}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, year = {1993}, pages = {471--515}, journal = {The Semantics of Prepositions -- From Mental Processing to Natural Language Processing}, keywords = { }, url = {http://cogprints.org/1558/}, abstract = {The cognitive function of mental images with respect to the referential aspect of language is examined and used in the listener model ANTLIMA of the natural language system SOCCER. An operational realization of the reference relation used to recognize instances of spatial concepts in the results of a vision system and also to visualize locative expressions is presented and compared to A. Herskovits' analysis of the semantics of spatial prepositions. } }