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Modeling the Semantics of Geographic Categories through Conceptual Integration

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Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2002)

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We apply the notion of conceptual integration from cognitive science to model the semantics of geographic categories. The paper shows the basic ideas, using the classical integration example of houseboats and boathouses. It extends the notion with image-schematic and affordance-based structure. A formalization in the functional language Haskell tests this approach and demonstrates how it generalizes to a powerful paradigm for building ontologies.

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  1. Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Robert-Koch-Strasse 26-28, D-48149, Muenster, Germany

    Werner Kuhn

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  1. Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Orono, ME, 04469-5711, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469-5711, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

  3. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, 105 Wilkeson Quad., Box 610023, Buffalo, NY, 14261-0023, USA

    David M. Mark

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Kuhn, W. (2002). Modeling the Semantics of Geographic Categories through Conceptual Integration. In: Egenhofer, M.J., Mark, D.M. (eds) Geographic Information Science. GIScience 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2478. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45799-2_8

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