RE: HM.applications-Profiling-Level of Details/Abstraction

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

Good:  a static description.  That is representable in 
an XML Schema given you take out the illegal whitespaces 
in the generic identifiers (unqualified names).  

The nut of the problem in the original paper described 
reasoning by analogy. 

That is, all the system knows is how to turn the heater 
on or off.  It has to reason its way to facts or 
really tests to figure out the air conditioner.  That 
is why it has to identify an analog, then do the 
substitution.   It actually doesn't know the air conditioner 
is there.  It knows there is a red button to activate 
the heater and there is a blue button.  

One can do testing and one might also compute "certainty/uncertainty" 
using Bayesian/Demptster-Schafer or belief functions.  
Seems a bit much for the example but I bring it up 
because it eventually becomes necessary for other 
scenarios.  Bayesian is usually more effective 
where conditions and ranges are known (machine 
systems) and belief systems where there is more 
uncertainty but expertise exists (medical systems).

Going off track:  I was after scenarios to help 
us find some boundaries for HumanML and how it 
works with other systems.  Probably, HumanML 
is just an organizing domain itself.


Len 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brownell [mailto:gizmotron@earthlink.net]


So for the sake of information like this above, if I understand it
correctly, here is
a MTML representation of the same information in a human readable form, that
could be used by an application using PNLP, Parallel Numerical Lineal
Parser.

The MTML below is descriptive of a single object, that could be expressive
of 
many objects, that are about things that happen while in a car.

<while in the car> -- relates to things that happen while in a car.
  <human comfort > -- relates to human comfort wherever it may happen.
    <senses change in comfort> -- relates to senses involving comfort.
      <reaction to change in comfort> -- implies a human action to change
         <possible choices in this situation> 
           <air condition controls on the dashboard>
              <air conditioner on/off switch>
                 <automobile characteristics>
                    <turns heater off when activated/>
                    <is visible on dashboard with a blue indicator/>
                    <is illuminated with a blue indicator light at night/>
                    <turns off air conditioner if selected while AC is on/>
                 </automobile characteristics>
              </air conditioner on switch>
              <heater on switch>
                 <automobile characteristics>
                    <turns heater off when activated/>
                    <is visible on dashboard with a blue indicator/>
                    <is illuminated with a blue indicator light at night/>
                    <turns off air conditioner if selected while AC is on/>
                 </automobile characteristics>
              </heater on switch>
           </air condition controls on the dashboard>
           <open windows>
             <automobile characteristics>
                 <roll down windows using the correct window switch/>
             </automobile characteristics>
           </open windows>
           <do nothing about it>
              <reference human traits/>
           <do nothing about it>
         </possible choices in this situation>
      </reaction to change in comfort> 
    </senses change in comfort>
  </human comfort >
</while in the car> 

<while in the car> 
   ... more stuff about cars
</while in the car> 

This set of nested tags could be used to reconstruct sentences that make
sense to the 
inquiring application using this markup. At any level there are objects
within other objects. 
So it is possible to gather together parts of one object that can be used to
populate parts 
of another object. It just depends on how you want to build the application.
As you can see 
the information is in a human readable form.