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Subject: Re: HM.Frameworks: Physical Description
I'm just responding to a thread on this - the
KindaLike is Sean's terminology <grin/>.
Seriously, all I'm trying to do is look
at potential correlative mechanisms based upon specific relational
operators. One potential arena where I can see something like this in play
is in preference mechanisms, which I see as one specific region in which HumanML
has definite applications. As I mentioned before, in some cases these measures
are subjective, though I suspect there are relatively few areas
where a more formal definition of a given measure couldn't be
formulated. Consider color equivalences, for instance, where two reds may
be fairly distinct from one another but is more alike than green
and very much more alike than blue. If I describe someone as having red
hair, for instance, and I want to draw a correlative link to another person with
red hair, the like attribute would not likely be 1.0 (I have two daughters
with red hair, and yet it is obvious looking at them that one is not the same
shade as the others).
These don't have immediate bearing to the
HumanML schema itself, only to the creation of correlative mechanisms between
two instances of that schema. In that sense, the discussions here are
application oriented rather than schema oriented. However, having said that, I
would think that correlative measures would make a great deal of sense in Public
Safety issues, especially as it brings up another point that has been bothering
me for a while. We need to be concerned about the nature of the measurements
involved. Should units be introduced into the schema itself, and if so, how? Is
it more reasonable to describe a map of units of a given type as a prolog block
to any measurement indicators. For instance, it may be more reasonable to
basically describe in the schema that a person's height measurement is
given as being of type Length, and in the prolog all units of type Length are
described as being in centimeters or inches. This makes it possible to make all
measurements scalars without the ugly necessities of parsing out unit measures
from strings. Note that this may have already been addressed. I'm somewhat
backed up in my reading at the moment.
--
Kurt
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