Spatial role labeling
- 8 December 2011
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing
- Vol. 8 (3), 1-36
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2050104.2050105
Abstract
This article reports on the novel task of spatial role labeling in natural language text. It proposes machine learning methods to extract spatial roles and their relations. This work experiments with both a step-wise approach, where spatial prepositions are found and the related trajectors, and landmarks are then extracted, and a joint learning approach, where a spatial relation and its composing indicator, trajector, and landmark are classified collectively. Context-dependent learning techniques, such as a skip-chain conditional random field, yield good results on the GUM-evaluation (Maptask) data and CLEF-IAPR TC-12 Image Benchmark. An extensive error analysis, including feature assessment, and a cross-domain evaluation pinpoint the main bottlenecks and avenues for future research.Keywords
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