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We use the term\n            <jats:italic>spatial grounding<\/jats:italic>\n            in a slightly more general sense to refer to the association of any type of\n            <jats:italic>spatial descriptor<\/jats:italic>\n            with a\n            <jats:italic>place model<\/jats:italic>\n            . In the simplest case, the descriptor consists of a toponym and the place model is provided by a (vague) geographic region. More complex descriptors make use of prepositional phrases or even a text span comprising many sentences, e.g. a travel blog entry. However, descriptors are in no way limited to natural language expressions. A frequently used descriptor in mobile GIR is the geographic position of the user as part of the specification of an information need. Furthermore, spatial activities such as taking photographs can also act as descriptors for places models (\"tell me more about the focused object\"). Different place models for representing the vagueness of regions have been proposed including supervaluation semantics and qualitatively augmented fuzzy footprints [12]. 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