RE: [humanmarkup] Re: [h-anim] HumanML Thoughts

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Working my way up from the bottom of the mail, 
I just saw Norm's comment on the need to look 
at gestural intensity and expand it.  That 
is the kind of feedback that is most immediately 
useful.  I'll read the paper and reply.

We can evaluate any system and see what it 
has to offer.  I could fill in the schema 
immediately with all of the types developed 
for public safety and add oh, a few hundred 
elements.  But that is using HumanML as a 
means to productize and even if it slows 
us down, we should be careful to ensure 
we are spec'ing repurposable datasets. 
This is a difficult balancing act of course; 
too abstract and we get ineefficient garbage 
bag design; too specific and we can't repurpose. 
So when proposing data types, we have to ask 
where they do or don't add to the job of 
describing humans and human communications. 

Classification is an art form.  There are 
techniques and rules of thumb to guide 
but often they are just rulesOfDaToolz. 
It takes a bit of intuition to work out 
the rest.  That is why things like AI 
tended to fall apart in the crunch.

I just subscribed to the OASIS list. 
But we are in motion. :-)

Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:06 AM
To: humanmarkup@yahoogroups.com;
humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: James Smith
Subject: RE: [humanmarkup] Re: [h-anim] HumanML Thoughts


Good work. Right. It is part of the middleware. I'll try to enlist 
Jan to help. I thought this had moved to OASIS already? I just added 
it.