[humanmarkup-comment] HM.frameworks: social structure for the givencontext

[Balachandhran <balloo@vsnl.com>]

Hi len:

That article was especially useful to put the whole thing in the right
context.
Now pondering on that brings up the question of defining the socail
structure framework for a given context (which can be an attribute in XML
terms, I guess).

Regards

Bala

-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@ingr.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:16 AM
To: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga; balloo@vsnl.com; OASIS Comment
Subject: RE: [humanmarkup-comment] HM.frameworks: social structure:
marriage + introduction


Hi Bala:

With respect to this topic, you may wish to review

"A Decision Support System for Rule Discovery In Social Networks",
www.eas.asu.edu/~gcss/papers/SocialNetworks.pdf

This is a more complicated problem than it first appears and particularly
affects the names which can be applied (therefore, the applicable codelists)

given a particular culture.  A simple example is the use in some
Asian cultures of the title "auntie" for women who are not
by marriage or birth related to the user of the title.  "Dutch Uncle"
is a term seen in the West.  However, the authors of the article
explore this and describe a system for use by anthropologists,
linguists, etc. on a means to map such terms.

len