Maria Vasardani

Spatial Concepts in the Conversation With a Computer

Stephan Winter, Timothy Baldwin, Martin Tomko, Jochen Renz, Werner Kuhn, Maria Vasardani

Journal article  |  2021  |  COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

Conversing about places with a computer poses a range of challenges to current AI.

A proactive route planning approach to navigation errors

D Amores, E Tanin, M Vasardani

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Online navigation systems assume a person can follow a given route from origin to destination. Nonetheless, spatial cognition stud..

Dynamic Problem Solving in Space

C Freksa, M Vasardani, F Kroll

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

The paper presents and illustrates the strong spatial cognition paradigm in the example of catching a flying ball by means of an a..

Place questions and human-generated answers: A data analysis approach

Ehsan Hamzei, Haonan Li, M Vasardani, T Baldwin, S Winter, M Tomko

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Geospatial Technologies for Local and Regional Development. Proceedings of the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science

This paper investigates place-related questions submitted to search systems and their human-generated answers. Place-based search ..

Smartphone usability for emergency evacuation applications

D Amores, M Vasardani, E Tanin

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics

Mobile phone ubiquity has allowed the implementation of a number of emergency-related evacuation aids. Yet, these applications sti..

Clustering-based disambiguation of fine-grained place names from descriptions

H Chen, M Vasardani, S Winter

Journal article  |  2019  |  GeoInformatica

Everyday place descriptions often contain place names of fine-grained features, such as buildings or businesses, that are more dif..

Infrastructure-Independent Indoor Localization and Navigation

Stephan Winter, Martin Tomko, Maria Vasardani, Kai-Florian Richter, Kourosh Khoshelham, Mohsen Kalantari

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACM Computing Surveys

In the absence of any global positioning infrastructure for indoor environments, research on supporting human indoor localization ..

UniMelb at SemEval-2019 Task 12: Multi-model combination for toponym resolution

Haonan Li, Minghan Wang, Timothy Baldwin, Martin Tomko, Maria Vasardani

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2019 Task 12 on toponym resolution over scientific articles. We train separate NER ..

Negotiation Between Vehicles and Pedestrians for the Right of Way at Intersections

Surabhi Gupta, Maria Vasardani, Stephan Winter

Journal article  |  2019  |  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

The higher social attention and negotiation among road users while crossing the road is as much a challenge for self-driving cars ..

Pedestrian's risk-based negotiation model for self-driving vehicles to get the right of way

Surabhi Gupta, Maria Vasardani, Bharat Lohani, Stephan Winter

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION

Negotiations among drivers and pedestrians are common on roads, but it is still challenging for a self-driving vehicle to negotiat..