Como pessoas descrevem lugares?

Abstract

The way we describe locations can be important in several situations, not only in warnings about occurrences of greater severity such as traffic accidents or natural disasters, but in other events in which communication is done verbally. Despite the considerable advancements in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, current Natural Language Processing models are not yet able to maintain a dialogue that involves non-trivial geographic awareness and spatial reasoning. In this work, an experiment was carried out to collect and analyze data referring to 570 place descriptions made by volunteers, in order to understand human behavior under different conditions. The results provided meaningful insights on the way people describe places in different situations they are exposed, such as known and unknown places. It also revealed some language resources that are employed under different circumstances and indicated that there may be correlations between features like gender/age and the language resources used. We believe this work is a important step towards a deeper understanding of spatial language and that the results obtained in this research are useful resources for the development of spatial-aware intelligent systems.