Previous studies have provided evidence of multi-level mental representations of language-conveyed spatial (scenic) information. However, the available evidence is largely inconclusive with regard to the structure of these mental representations. A laboratory experiment assesses computer-assisted problem-solving performance abilities when language-conveyed representations of spatial information...

Private landowners in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon, USA were surveyed. The survey queried probabilities implementing specific fuels reduction projects extensive areas forest types on their property. described relation to beginning and target types, actions required, costs, long-term maintenance. Forest first rated for scenic beauty informed levels wildfire risk reduction, scarce hab...

In this paper we described our efforts for TREC contextual suggestion task. Our goal of this year is to evaluate the effectiveness of: (1) predict user preferences of each scenic spot based on non-negtive matrix factorization, (2) automatic summarization method that leverages the information from multiple resources to generate the description for each candidate scenic spots; and (3) hybrid reco...