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标题：Containment and support in Baltic Languages: Overview, experimental evidence, and an extended RCC as applied to Latvian and Lithuanian
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作者：Eglė Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė ; Jurģis Šķilters ; Līga Zariņa 等
期刊名称：Baltic Journal of Modern Computing
印刷版ISSN：2255-8942
电子版ISSN：2255-8950
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：1-31
DOI：10.22364/bjmc.2019.7.2.04
出版社：Vilnius University, University of Latvia, Latvia University of Agriculture, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of University of Latvia
摘要：The paper deals with the spatial relations of containment and support in the Baltic languages in a geometric framework. The geometric framework in our research is based on Region Connection Calculus representing different combinations of two circles depending on primitive topological relation of connectedness and extended with the distance, size, orientation and partial occlusion primitives. The research summarises results of two experiments conducted with 105 Latvian and 106 Lithuanian native speakers, provides the interpretation of 8 support and 5 containment stimuli, and gives a preliminary overview of correlation between different independent variables and the granularity and length of the spatial descriptions. Our results indicate a great variation in interpreting the given stimuli in each language, but the contrastive empirical analysis reveals that heterogeneity of interpretation in both languages is similar. For perception of support and containment relations, axial information and connectedness are the determining primitives.
关键词：containment; support; RCC; geometry; the Baltic languages;