Spatial Language Understanding

Parisa Kordjamshidi, Ph.D, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from KU Leuven. Dr. Kordjamshidi's main research interests are natural language processing, combining vision and language, and neurosymbolic AI. Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens, Ph.D, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Language Intelligence and Information Retrieval Lab (LIIR) at KU Leuven. Her research interests include machine learning for natural language, speech, and image processing; multimedia information retrieval; deep learning and latent variable models; and language understanding, information extraction from text, and content recognition.James Pustejovsky, Ph.D., is the TJX Feldberg  Chair in Computer Science at Brandeis University, where he is also Chair of the Linguistics Program, Chair of the Computational Linguistics M.S. Program, and Director of the Lab for Linguistics and Computation.  He has authored numerous books on lexical and computational semantics, linguistic annotation, and temporal and spatial reasoning. He conducts research in areas of computational linguistics, lexical semantics, multimodal interactions and reasoning, situated grounding, and developing standards and annotated datasets for machine learning.

• Introduction.- Spatial Representations.- Spatial Information Extraction.- Spatial Reasoning.- Spatial Commonsense Knowledge.- Spatial Language Applications.