We develop a system that formally represents spatial semantics concepts within natural language descriptions of spatial arrangements. The system builds on a model of spatial semantics representation according to which words in a sentence are assigned spatial roles and the relations among these roles are represented with spatial relations. We combine our system with the shape grammar formalism that uses shape rules to generate languages (sets) of two-dimensional shapes. Our proposed system consists of pairs of shape rules and verbal rules where the verbal rules describe in English the action of the associated shape rule. We present various types of natural language descriptions of shapes that are successfully parsed by our system and we discuss open questions and challenges we see at the interface of language and perception.

翻译：我们开发了一个正式代表空间语义概念的系统,在自然语言空间安排说明中正式代表空间语义概念,该系统以空间语义代表模式为基础,根据这一模式,一个句中的文字被分配为空间角色,这些角色之间的关系与空间关系得到体现。我们将我们的系统与形状语法形式主义结合起来,利用形状语法形式主义来生成二维形状的语言(套)。我们提议的系统由两对形状规则和口头规则组成,语言规则用英语描述相关形状规则的动作。我们提出了各种类型的自然语言描述,这些形状被我们的系统成功地区分出来,我们讨论了在语言和认知的界面中我们所看到的公开问题和挑战。