RE: Profiling in the News: Was: RE: Taxonomies, URN's etc..

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

Put a dog and a girl next to the lamppost and repeat. 
That gives the problem more illumination power.

Hint: first she has to know where you are looking 
so she will test the space of objects.   Isolate in 
order what is needed for the context.  What human 
properties will she use to do that?  Don't go too 
deep (she won't evaluate the universe, she won't 
try to work out the existential dilemmas of doggyness, 
and she does know your sense of humor because after 
all, she is YourGirlfriend).  What does she know? 
What facilities (hint: senses) does she use?  Why did she pick 
that response instead of simply agreeing with you 
given there is a dog and a girl next to the lamppost?  

This is a nice simple communication between consenting 
and familiar humans that is capable of being misinterpreted, 
but IT WASN'T.  Why?

Regardless of how you represent it (subject, object, predicate) 
or (name, subname, value), the communication occurs 
in a context that has multiple sets of properties 
and you have to figure out if there is an invariant 
that selects the object(s) so you can then evaluate 
the statement, or if the properties in aggregate 
provide a testable assertion.  (at the bottom, 
you may find a use for the strength value of 
the relationship but try other solutions first).

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 30, 2001 8:59 AM
To: Sean B. Palmer; Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: Profiling in the News: Was: RE: Taxonomies, URN's etc..


I was hoping to see a few more of us respond to this, but be that as it may.

This is the central issue we deal with, after all.

I'm going to give this a little more time before revisiting it. 
However, I will add a twist here.

The lamppost says, "That's not a dog, that's my agent. My name is 
First and Main, what is yours?"

As Len said, there's no penalty for reading the Phase 0 work in regard to
this.