Applying ISO-Space to Healthcare Facility Design Evaluation Reports
Robert Gaizauskas, Emma Barker, Ching-Lan Chang, Leon Derczynski, Michael Phiri, Chengzhi Peng · 2012
This paper describes preliminary work on the spatial annotation of textual reports about healthcare facility design to support the long-term goal linking of report content to a three-dimensional building model. Emerging semantic annotation standards enable formal description of multiple types of discourse information. In this instance, we investigate the application of a spatial semantic annotation standard at the building-interior level, where most prior applications have been at inter-city or street level. Working with a small corpus of design evaluation documents, we have begun to apply the ISO-Space specification to annotate spatial information in healthcare facility design evaluation reports. These reports present an opportunity to explore semantic annotation of spatial language in a novel situation. We describe our application scenario, report on the sorts of spatial language found in design evaluation reports, discuss issues arising when applying ISO-Space to building-level entities and propose possible extensions to ISO-Space to address the issues encountered.