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Subject: RE: [huml] FW: Social Networks based on the plays by Shakespeare
Although speculative, his follow on was quite interesting too. Quoted below. len "There are all sorts of interesting things that one could do with such software. BP> What about a diagram of the relations among words > in a dictionary? (Tony Plate used did something > like this in Boguraev and Briscoe, Computational > Lexicography for NLP, but I'm not sure about the > details of his algorithm. I mentioned the PieSpy software because it is open source Java code that could be adapted and combined with many other kinds of open source projects. For starters, you could consider each word in the dictionary to be a "character" that interacts with the words in its definition. For a different perspective on the same words, you could consider the interactions of words with other words in their sample sentences. Once you have the basic program to take relationships and create diagrams from them, you can tinker with the algorithms to do all sorts of tradeoffs. There is a very large amount of published literature on these and related subjects, and you can try mixing and matching different algorthims and variations of them. It would also be useful to package parts of the PieSpy software with other tools that are also released under the GPL license. The nice thing about the PieSpy softrware is that it does the hard part of creating the graphics. It also provides a way of creating animations that show how the relationships evolve as you move through a text -- or as you move through any kind of source material from a database, a knowledge base, a dictionary, the Internet, or whatever. John" From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] Thanks, Len, This is interesting. Might be a good tool to analyze projected behavior vs. exhibited behavior. Perhaps, with algernon helping to produce rules-based applications working with OWL ontologies and this to track projected v. exhibited, we can generate some tracking metrics to gauge how well models perform in recorded interactions. Ciao, Rex At 2:01 PM -0600 3/11/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >FYI. > >len > >-----Original Message----- >From: John F. Sowa [mailto:sowa@bestweb.net] > >A program called PieSpy was designed to monitor social >networks on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and draw diagrams >of who was interacting with whom. Then somebody had >the bright idea of feeding the plays of Shakespeare >to the program (since each line of dialog is nicely >tagged with the speaker's name, just as in IRC). > >The result is in a scene-by-scene diagram of >the social interactions among the characters. >The attached diagram shows the social network >for Act II, Scene II, of Antony and Cleopatra. > >For more information, complete with animated diagrams >that show the evolution of the social networks from >scene to scene, see > > http://lister.linux-srv.anlx.net/shakespeare/ > Shakespeare Social Networks > >For more information about the PieSpy software >(written in Java and free for downloads), see > > http://lister.linux-srv.anlx.net/piespy/ > PieSpy - Inferring and Visualizing Social Networks > >There are all sorts of other applications that one >could imagine. With a bit of preprocessing of the >source data, PieSpy could be used to draw social >networks from cc lists on email, bibliographies >of documents, etc. > >And the nodes of the diagrams don't have to represent >people. They could also represent selected terms >in Peirce's manuscripts -- showing how the different >terms were related from one document to the next. >Other applications could include parts of machines, >concepts in an ontology, or companies in business. > >John Sowa > > > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be >removed from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to >http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/huml/members/leave_workgroup.p hp. > > > >Attachment converted: Enterprise:a_and_c..png (PNGf/<IC>) (002BEAE6) -- Rex Brooks GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison, Berkeley, CA, 94702 USA, Earth W3Address: http://www.starbourne.com Email: rexb@starbourne.com Tel: 510-849-2309 Fax: By Request
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