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Spatial Relations in Text-to-Scene Conversion

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Spatial relations play an important role in our understanding of language. In particular, they are a crucial component in descriptions of scenes in the world. WordsEye (www.wordseye.com) is a system for automatically converting natural language text into 3D scenes representing the meaning of that text. Natural language offers an interface to scene generation that is intuitive and immediately approachable by anyone, without any special skill or training. WordsEye has been used by several thousand users on the web to create approximately 15,000 fully rendered scenes. We describe how the system incorporates geometric and semantic knowledge about objects and their parts and the spatial relations that hold among these in order to depict spatial relations in 3D scenes.

Source: Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)

DOI: 10.7916/d8902c78

Authors: Sproat, Richard, Coyne, Robert Eric, Hirschberg, Julia Bell

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1940787179

FWCI: 1.354

Cites: 13

Cited by: 25

Related to: 10