Talking about place where it matters

Abstract

This chapter poses questions towards a smart geographic communication: What is required to allow a person to talk to a machine in a natural way about geographic space, without learning a particular interface or structured form of dialog? And can the machine respond in a manner that a person would accept as humanlike communication in its capacity of considering context? Where are the gaps in our current knowledge, for example as implemented in current systems, and where is more research needed?