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

["Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>]

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

No, that comes from the lamppost, surely?

> Hint: first she has to know where you are looking
> so she will test the space of objects.

O.K. So if there were two lampposts, and three dogs and girls near each
one, then you'd have to attach additional proxemic (the one on the left) or
qualifying (the lamppost with the white bulb) characterisitics in order to
narrow it down so that one could communicate properly. It's just trying to
gague the smallest possible context in which a sentence will not be
misinterpreted, to some degree of satisfaction.

> Isolate in order what is needed for the context.

Hey, I just said that.

> [...] (she won't evaluate the universe, she won't try to work
> out the existential dilemmas of doggyness,

She might do. But it's probably more likely that she'd assume that I have
the same connotations of "doggyness" as her, and so just use the simple
label "dog/lamppost-attracted-object" to refer to them.

> and she does know your sense of humor because after
> all, she is YourGirlfriend).

Poor lass.

> 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, [...]

Yeah, but we do this on a sub-conscious level, otherwise it would be
absurd. You'd have to debate, with yourself, the nature of every object in
your frame of reference (including yourself), and you'd end up in a corner
rocking back and forth and crying. Is that what HumanMarkup is trying to
do; bring the contextual information out into the open so that people from
wider audiences can evaluate the situation? In that case, it's going to be
difficult for people to qualify that information, because they're used to
just doing it intuitively.

I wonder if HumanML would have helped Mr. Jones, at all?

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