Cognitive and Linguistic Ideas in Geographic Information Semantics

• Bateman JA (1993) Ontology construction and natural language. In: Poli R (ed) International workshop on formal ontology. LABSEB-CNR, Padova (Italy), pp 83–93

  Google Scholar 

• Bizer C (2009) Linked data—the story so far. Int J Semant Web Inf Syst 5(3):1–22

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Chrisman NR (1997) Exploring GIS, 1st edn. John Wiley College Division

  Google Scholar 

• Cohn AG, Hazarika SM (2001) Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning: an overview. Fundamenta Informaticae 46(1–2):1–29

  Google Scholar 

• Devaraju A (2012) Representing and reasoning about geographic occurrences in the sensor web. Dissertations in Geographic Information Science (GISDISS), vol 7. AKA, Verlag. ISBN:978-3-89838-673-9

  Google Scholar 

• Duce S, Janowicz K (2010) Microtheories for spatial data infrastructures-accounting for diversity of local conceptualizations at a global level. Geographic information science. Lecture notes in computer science, vol 6292. Springer, Berlin, pp 27–41

  Google Scholar 

• Fauconnier G, Turner M (2003) The way we think: conceptual blending and the mind’s hidden complexities. Basic Books, New York

  Google Scholar 

• Gärdenfors P (2000) Conceptual spaces—the geometry of thought. Bradford Books, MIT Press, Cambridge

  Google Scholar 

• Gärdenfors P (2004) How to make the semantic web more semantic. In: Varzi A, Lieu L (eds) Formal ontology in information systems. IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp 17–34

  Google Scholar 

• Goodchild MF (1992) Geographic data modeling. Comput Geosci 18(4):401–408

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Goodchild MF (2007) Editorial: citizens as voluntary sensors: spatial data infrastructure in the world of web 2.0. Int J Spatial Data Infrastruct Res 2:24–32

  Google Scholar 

• Goodchild MF, Yuan M, Cova T (2007) Towards a general theory of geographic representation in GIS. Int J Geogr Inf Sci 21(3):239–260

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Gruber TR (1993) A translation approach to portable ontology specifications. Knowl Acquis 5(2):199–220

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Guarino N (1992) Concepts, attributes and arbitrary relations: some linguistic and ontological criteria for structuring knowledge bases. Data Knowl Eng 8(3):249–261

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Janowicz K, Raubal M, Kuhn W (2011) The semantics of similarity in geographic information retrieval. J Spatial Inf Sci 2:29–57

  Google Scholar 

• Johnson M (1987) The body in the mind: the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

  Google Scholar 

• Keßler C (2011) What is the difference? A cognitive dissimilarity measure for information retrieval result sets. Knowl Inf Syst 30(2):319–340

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (1993) Metaphors create theories for users. In: Frank AU, Campari I (eds) Spatial information theory a theoretical basis for GIS. Lecture notes in computer science, vol 716. Springer, Berlin, pp 366–376

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (1997) Approaching the issue of information loss in geographic data transfers. Geogr Syst 4(3):261–276

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (2002) Modeling the semantics of geographic categories through blendings. In: Lund SN, Turner M (eds) The way we think—research symposium on conceptual integration. University of Southern Denmark, Odense (Denmark)

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (2003) Semantic reference systems (guest editorial). Int J Geogr Inf Sci 17(5):405–409

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (2005) Geospatial semantics: why, of what, and how? J Data Semant (Special issue on semantic-based geographical information systems, Spring 2005) Lecture notes in computer science, vol 3534. Springer, Berlin, pp 1–24

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (2007) An image-schematic account of spatial categories. In: Winter S, Duckham M, Kulik L, Kuipers B (eds) 8th international conference on spatial information theory (COSIT). Lecture notes in computer science, vol 4736. Springer, Melbourne, pp 152–168

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (2009) Semantic engineering. Research trends in geographic information science. Lecture notes in geoinformation and cartography. Springer, Berlin, pp 63–76

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W (2010) Modeling vs encoding. Semant Web Interoperability Usability Appl 1(1):11–15

  Google Scholar 

• Kuhn W, Frank AU (1991) A formalization of metaphors and image-schemas in user interfaces. In: Mark DM, Frank AU (eds) Cognitive and linguistic aspects of geographic space (NATO ASI Series D, vol 63) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp 419–434

  Google Scholar 

• Lakoff GP (1987) Women, fire, and dangerous things. what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

  Google Scholar 

• Lakoff GP (1990) The invariance hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas? Cogn Linguist 1(1):39–74

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Lakoff GP, Johnson M (1980) Metaphors we live by. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

  Google Scholar 

• Mark DM, Frank AU (1991) Cognitive and linguistic aspects of geographic space. NATO ASI Series D, vol 63 (519 pp) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands

  Google Scholar 

• Nuñes J (1991) Geographic space as a set of concrete geographical entities. In: Mark DM, Frank AU (eds) Cognitive and linguistic aspects of geographic space (NATO ASI Series D, vol 63) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp 9–34

  Google Scholar 

• Ogden CK, Richards IA (1923) The meaning of meaning. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York

  Google Scholar 

• Ortmann J, Kuhn W (2010) Affordances as Qualities. In: Galton A, Mizoguchi R (eds) 6th international conference on formal ontology in information systems (FOIS). IOS Press, Toronto (Canada), pp 117–130

  Google Scholar 

• Probst F (2008) Observations, measurements and semantic reference spaces. Appl Ontol 3(1):63–89

  Google Scholar 

• Pylyshyn ZW (2007) Things and places. How the mind connects with the world. The MIT Press, Cambridge

  Google Scholar 

• Raubal M, Worboys MF (1999) A formal model of the process of wayfinding in built environments. In: Freksa C, Mark DM (ed) Spatial information theory—cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (COSIT). Lecture notes in computer science, vol 1661. Springer, Berlin, pp 381–399

  Google Scholar 

• Raubal M, Egenhofer MJ, Pfoser D, Tryfona N (1997) Structuring space with image schemata: wayfinding in airports as a case study. In: Hirtle S, Frank A (eds) Spatial information theory—a theoretical basis for GIS, international conference (COSIT). Lecture notes in computer science, vol 1329. Springer, Berlin, pp 85–102

  Google Scholar 

• Reddy MJ (1979) The conduit metaphor: a case of frame conflict in our language about language. In: Ortony A (ed) Metaphor and thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 284–310

  Google Scholar 

• Riedemann C (2005) Matching names and definitions of topological operators. In: Cohn AG, Mark DM (eds) Spatial information theory: cognitive and computational foundations (COSIT). Lecture notes in computer science, vol 3693. Springer, Berlin, pp 165–181

  Google Scholar 

• Rodríguez AM, Egenhofer MJ (2004) Comparing geospatial entity classes: an asymmetric and context-dependent similarity measure. Int J Geogr Inf Sci 18(3):229–256

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Scheider S (2011) Grounding geographic information in perceptual operations. PhD thesis, University of Münster. http://www.geographicknowledge.de/pdf/MyThesis.pdf

• Scheider S, Kuhn W (2010) Affordance-based categorization of road network data using a grounded theory of channel networks. Int J Geogr Inf Sci 24(8):1249–1267

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Scheider S, Kuhn W (2011) Finite relativist geometry grounded in perceptual operations. In: Egenhofer MJ, Giudice N, Moratz R, Worboys MF (eds) 10th conference on spatial information theory (COSIT). Lecture notes in computer science, vol 6899. Springer, Berlin, pp 304–327

  Google Scholar 

• Scheider S, Janowicz K, Kuhn W (2009) Grounding geographic categories in the meaningful environment. In: Hornsby KS, Claramunt C, Ligozat G (eds) 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT). Lecture notes in computer science, vol 5756. Springer, Berlin, pp 69–87

  Google Scholar 

• Schwering A, Kuhn W (2009) A hybrid similarity measure for spatial information retrieval. J Spatial Cogn Comput 9(1):30–63

  Google Scholar 

• Sloman A (2008) architectural and representational requirements for seeing processes and affordances. In: Computational modelling workshop, closing the gap between neurophysiology and behaviour: a computational modelling approach. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/sloman-newmod.pdf

• Warren WH (1984) Perceiving affordances: visual guidance of stair climbing. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 10(5):683–703

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Worboys MF (2005) Event-oriented approaches to geographic phenomena. Int J Geogr Inf Sci 19(1):1–28

  Article  Google Scholar 

Download references