From language to pictorial representations

Gérard Ligozat (1) , Jakub Nowak (2) , Didier Schmitt (3)

1 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
2 UAM - Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu = Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
3 Université Paris-Saclay

Representing spatio-temporal events using pictures or schematic representations is a difficult challenge, since static representations are meant to convey dynamic processes. A case in point is the representation of battles, for which historians have devised schematic maps using various conventions. More recently, in the field of geography, the language of choremes has been introduced for the representation of geographical change. This paper describes work in progress on the automatic pictorial representation of events extracted from natural language texts. The general purpose of the research consists in generating schematic visual pictures of spatio-temporal processes described in natural language texts. The application currently under development generates schematic representations, based on choremes, of the events described in a short excerpt from Caesar's " Gallic War " as a testbed.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Linguistique

Gérard Ligozat, Jakub Nowak, Didier Schmitt. From language to pictorial representations. Language and Technology Conference (L&TC'07), Sep 2007, Poznan, Poland. ⟨hal-01433999⟩