Fwd: Re: fuzzy clustering extracts: linked semantic regions(graphs): KMi Project: Scholarly Ontologies: Doct Archive

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: Fwd: Re: fuzzy clustering extracts: linked semantic re

> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:38:37 -0700
> To: "cognite@zianet.com" <cognite@zianet.com>
> From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
> Subject: Re: fuzzy clustering extracts: linked semantic regions
> (graphs):  KMi  Project: Scholarly Ontologies: Doct
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> Thanks Sylvia,
>
> I have bookmarked the kmi site and I have
> looked at a couple of the papers to survey the empirical approach to
> satisfy myself that it is not superficially flawed as much of the
> knowledge management field so dramatically (to me at least) is. This
> is not to cast aspersions on any of the bona fides, simply to assure
> myself that I am not likely to be chasing or hunting any wild geese,
> snarks or snipes, and I am satisfied that this material is on the
> other end of the spectrum, e.g., somewhat more academically
> constrained. However, in this current marketplace of ideas on semantic
> organizing principles or organizing principles for semantically
> related topics, this is more desireable than its
> opposite.
>
> Ciao,
> Rex
>
> At 5:39 PM -0600 7/22/03,
> cognite@zianet.com wrote:
> > REF:
> > "http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/scholonto-archive.html
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/scholonto-archive.html>"
> >
> > in particular,
> >
> > ------------------------ HTML
> >
> >
> >      Designing Representational Coherence into an
> > Infrastructure for
> >      Collective Sensemaking
> >
> >    Simon Buckingham Shum, Victoria Uren, Gangmin Li, John
> > Domingue,
> >    Enrico Motta, Clara Mancini
> >
> >    We discuss issues arising from the design, implementation
> > and first
> >    use of a prototype infrastructure for distributed
> > collective
> >    practice (IDCP), and reflect upon their intersection with
> > some of
> >    the themes emerging from the Paris 2000 IDCP workshop.
> > The problem
> >    of maintaining coherence in a distributed system is of
> > central
> >    interest to us. We focus on the notion of
> > representational
> >    coherence, and consider both process issues (the
> > evolution of a
> >    discourse structuring scheme; tracing infrastructural
> > history), and
> >    the affordances of the resulting product (uncertainty
> > with respect
> >    to the scheme's application; ways to map the topography
> > of the
> >    emergent representation, with particular interest in
> > graph theory).
> >    Throughout, we highlight issues that could have broader
> > implications
> >    for IDCPs.
> >
> >    /2^nd International Workshop on Infrastructures for
> > Distributed
> >    Collective Practices
> > <http://weber.ucsd.edu/%7Egbowker/colloque/>.
> >    San Diego, 6-9 Feb. 2002./
> >
> >    Adobe Acrobat
> >   
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/docs/SBS_DCP2002.pdf>
> > |
> >    HTML
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/docs/SBS_DCP2002.html>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> >
> >
> >      Semantic Structuring of Concepts found in
> > Scholarly Literature: An
> >      Empirical Study using a Fuzzy Clustering
> > Approach
> >
> > Volker Stix and Victoria Uren
> >
> > In this empirical study a concept map is reorganized and clustered in
> > order to provide an intuitive structure for browsing. The concepts are
> > represented as nodes created by the authors of articles but also by
> > readers of these articles. Semantic dependencies are coded through
> > links between the nodes to build a graph. We report an experiment in
> > which such a concept graph is clustered through fuzzy clustering
> > techniques in order to extract semantically dependent regions. These
> > clusters can potentially act as new artificial concepts on a higher
> > level of abstraction.
> >
> > /In Proceedings SCI2003 <http://www.iiis.org/sci2003> 7th World
> > Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (July 27-30
> > Orlando Florida USA)/
> >
> > /Adobe Acrobat
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/docs/SCI2003fuzz.pdf>/
> >
> >
> >      Towards Scholarly Publishing on the Semantic
> > Web
> >
> >
> > Simon Buckingham Shum  PI  Open U in UK
> > This presentation reports on progress 21 months into a 3 year
> > DIM-funded project to develop and release a system that demonstrates a
> > 'network-native' web environment for publishing scientific results.
> > The ClaiMaker prototype enables researchers to 'make claims' (open to
> > dispute of course) about the contributions of research publications,
> > by summarising the key concepts associated with them, and their
> > connections to the existing literature. ClaiMaker provides a menu of
> > relationships for making scholarly argumentation links between
> > concepts, and tools for interrogating the knowledge base. The
> > literature in a field is thus represented as a network of claims and
> > counterclaims, backed by evidence. This makes possible novel kinds of
> > search and visualization of structures in the literature, for example,
> > "What documents challenge this?", or "What is the
> > intellectual lineage of this concept?". ClaiMaker has now been
> > released for evaluation by a variety of research
> > communities.
> > /Presentation at EPSRC DIMnet Workshop (Manchester University, 7-8 Oct
> > 2002)/
> >
> > Slides
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/slides/EPSRC-DIMnet-Oct02.ppt>
> >
> >
> >      Case Studies in Ontology-Driven Document
> > Enrichment: Principles,
> >      Tools and Applications
> >
> >    Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum and John Domingue
> >
> >    In this paper we present an approach to /document
> > enrichment,/ which
> >    consists of developing and integrating formal knowledge
> > models with
> >    archives of documents, to provide intelligent knowledge
> > retrieval
> >    and (possibly) additional knowledge-intensive services,
> > beyond what
> >    is currently available using 'standard' information
> > retrieval and
> >    search facilities. Our approach is /ontology-driven,/ in
> > the sense
> >    that the construction of the knowledge model is carried
> > out in a
> >    top-down fashion, by populating a given /ontology,/
> > rather than in a
> >    bottom-up fashion, by annotating a particular document.
> > In the paper
> >    we give an overview of the approach and we examine the
> > various types
> >    of issues (e.g., modelling, organizational and user
> > interface
> >    issues) which need to be tackled to effectively deploy
> > our approach
> >    in the workplace. In addition we also discuss a number
> > of
> >    technologies we have developed to support ontology-driven
> > document
> >    enrichment and we illustrate our ideas in the domains of
> > electronic
> >    news publishing, scholarly discourse and medical
> > guidelines.
> >
> >    /International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
> >    <http://www.idealibrary.com/links/toc/ijhc/52/6/0>
> > 2000, 52, (6),
> >    1071-1109. /
> >
> >    PrePrint [Adobe Acrobat
> >   
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/docs/OntoDocEnrich-IJHCS-2000.pdf>]
> >
> >
> >          Scholarly Discourse
> > as Computable Structure
> >
> >        Simon Buckingham Shum, John
> > Domingue and Enrico Motta
> >
> >        In their initial proposal for
> > structural computing (SC),
> >        Nürnberg et al. [18] point to
> > hypertext argumentation systems as
> >        an example of an application
> > domain in which structure is of
> >        first-order importance. In this
> > paper we summarise the goals and
> >        implementation of a knowledge
> > based hypertext environment called
> >        ScholOnto (for Scholarly
> > Ontologies), which aims to provide
> >        researchers with computational
> > support in representing and
> >        analysing the structure of
> > scholarly claims, argumentation and
> >        perspectives. A specialised web
> > server will provide a medium for
> >        researchers to contest the
> > significance of concepts and emergent
> >        structures. In so doing,
> > participants construct an evolving
> >        structure that reflects a
> > community's understandings of its
> >        field, and which can support
> > computational services for
> >        scholars. Using structural
> > analyses of scholarly argumentation,
> >        we consider the connections with
> > structural computing, and
> >        propose a number of requirements
> > for generic SC environments.
> >
> >        /Second International Workshop on
> > Structural Computing
> >       
> > <http://www.cs.colorado.edu/users/kena/workshops/sc2/>, San
> >        Antonio, Texas, June 3, 2000. ACM
> > Hypertext 2000
> >        <http://www.ht00.org>/
> >
> >        PrePrint: KMi Technical Report
> > 93: [Adobe Acrobat
> >       
> > <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/techreports/papers/kmi-tr-93.pdf>]
> >
> >       
> > http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto/scholonto-archive.html
>
>
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>  
> Rex Brooks
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