An Informal Semantic Analysis of Motion Verbs Based on Physical Primitives
Jugal Kumar Kalita, Joel C. Lee · Computational Intelligence · 1997
A representation scheme for verbs and prepositions specifying path and locative information is developed. The representation emphasizes the implementability of the underlying semantic primitives. The primitives pertain to mechanical characteristics such as geometric relationships among objects, force or motion characteristics implied by verbs, and their prepositional modifiers. This representation has been used to animate the performance of tasks underlying natural language imperatives.