RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Our Next Meeting

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

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From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:43 PM
To: 'Rex Brooks'; humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org;
humanmarkup@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: 'cbullard@hiwaay.net'
Subject: RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Our Next Meeting


Rex asked that I post something quickly in reference to 
my proposal for experimental sign markup language.  This 
is a quick write up of what I have in mind.  Note that 
I am not abandoning an effort for the toolkit, but I 
feel personally that we need something simpler so we 
can investigate the numerous domains that we have 
come to understand affect a simple human communication. 
Since semiotics have impacted much of thinking, I 
think it useful to explore a basic, bare bones, 
semiotic markup, or sign metalanguage.

NOTE:  This is not a sign language in the sense 
of gestures learned by the hearing-impaired.  It 
is a semiotic markup language.

Why Do This?

1.  It is easier than attempting to create a complete and faithful 
model of human psychology

2.  It is simple enough to build rapidly.

3.  It provides a basis for experimenting with single and multi 
channel human communications.  That is, given Ricardo Gudwin's 
paper, one can consider intelligence to be measured by the 
numbers and instances of signs that an intelligent system 
can handle.   A simple sign processor works with just one.  Others 
can handle and correlate multiple sign systems.  The Gudwin model 
for a semiotic processor is a pretty good place to start to understand 
how a layered system for interpreting signs can be built.

4.  What is learned may enable us to look at our efforts to date 
and decide how best to refactor or take a different approach.

5.  It is time to produce.

Constraints:

KISS.  Stick to the classical 
definitions of semiotic sign concepts and create a markup 
for an observer/markup technician.   Ideally, someone with 
Out of the box, a sign can have signifieds.

<!ELEMENT sign (sign*, signifier, signified+, referent) >
<!ATTRIBUTE sign
  id ID #REQUIRED
  type (symbol | icon | index) #REQUIRED >

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