The ARC Project: Reasoning about Representations of Gothic Cathedrals with Artificial Intelligence

Author

Van Liefferinge, Stefaan ; Smith, Rebecca A. ; Carlson, Tyler ; Holt, Elijah ; Covington, Michael A. ; Potter, Walter D.

Author_Institution

Lamar Dodd Sch. of Art, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 July 2012

Firstpage

599

Lastpage

601

Abstract

The Architecture Represented Computationally (ARC) project analyzes documents that describe Gothic cathedrals. It researches how these descriptions can be translated from a natural language into a formal logical model - a representation that a computer can handle. Handling representations of architecture is not straightforward and requires expertise involving logical reasoning. ARC implements this expertise in Prolog. The project aims to create a system that can understand descriptions composed in a natural language and eventually in a later phase reproduce them in 3D.

Keywords

PROLOG; architecture; data visualisation; document handling; history; inference mechanisms; knowledge representation; natural languages; ARC project; Gothic architecture; Gothic cathedrals; Prolog; architecture represented computationally project; artificial intelligence; document analysis; formal logical model; knowledge representation; logical reasoning; natural language; Architecture; Buildings; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Knowledge representation; Organizations; Visualization; Defeasible Logic; Gothic Architecture; Knowledge Representation; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation (IV), 2012 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montpellier

ISSN

1550-6037

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2260-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2012.100

Filename

6295877