 KR.

One of the students in the class, Iris Tomlein, was working on
her PhD in Civil Engineering, using KR techniques for representing
spatial relationships in various kinds of structures.  She asked
me for references on various kinds of spatial relations that might
be suitable for representing her problems.

I suggested that she look at some of the papers by the linguist
Len Talmy, who had done a lot of work in collecting and analyzing
spatial relations as represented in many different languages.
Iris T. 