tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:18:33 +0000Semantics for Agentshttp://kashori.com/noreply@blogger.com (John Black)Blogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-3139419847426715442Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:01:00 +00002008-12-28T07:10:49.498-05:00social websemantic webI've been interested in the semantic web for a long time. Lately, I've gotten more interested in the social web. But this is not really much of a leap. In the following talk from the 2006 The 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Tom Gruber makes the following points: The Semantic Web is an ecosystem of interaction among computer systems. The social web is an ecosystem of conversation among http://kashori.com/2008/12/the-semantic-web-meets-social-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-3226553756356927597Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:37:00 +00002008-12-28T06:37:04.625-05:00Discover Nepomuk As a Developer | Nepomuk The Nepomuk framework allows you to create and query metadata for all kinds of resources that make up the KDE desktop. This of course includes the most obvious type of resource: files.http://kashori.com/2008/12/discover-nepomuk-as-developer-nepomuk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-514558905009165741Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:35:00 +00002008-12-20T07:24:40.667-05:00representations transduction perceptioncognitive affordance: "According to Gibson, however, perception is not mediated by memory, nor by inference, nor by any other psychological processes in which mental representations are deployed. Perception is the direct pickup of invariants in the optic array. In addition, the invariants are sufficient to specify all objects and events in the organism's environment. No mental contents and http://kashori.com/2008/12/cognitive-affordance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-6713925676397483696Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:27:00 +00002008-11-30T00:41:38.572-05:00semanticsreferencetransductionlanguage I may refer to a man's hand using the phrase "John Black's hand", or the like, and associate with that phrase a transduction of John Black's hand, similar to the transduction formed by a transducer toy, like the one shown below. You may have a nearly identical transduction of that hand, if you have a transducer toy just like ours and you press it against my hand. And you may come to associate http://kashori.com/2008/11/i-may-refer-to-mans-hand-using-phrase.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-8883437249721302991Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:07:00 +00002008-11-23T18:20:39.849-05:00distributed knowledgesemanticstruthOn the web, a document needs to be posted once, because it is accessible from everywhere at about the same cost. This is a great advantage over physical publishing since reaching everyone with a publication requires sufficient duplicates and distribution for everyone to have access. Will the Semantic Web provide the the same advantage for factual data? How many times does the fact that snow is http://kashori.com/2008/11/semantic-web-and-singular-expression-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-1599963425760518475Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:58:00 +00002008-01-07T05:55:59.963-05:00In the paper Interactively converging on context-sensitive representations: A solution to the frame problem by Robert M. French and Patrick Anselme, the authors describe a robotic simulation of context-sensitive representations: "Agre and Chapman (1987) developed a simulation, Pengi, in which an agent — a penguin — makes use of context-dependent representations in order to avoid being attacked, http://kashori.com/2008/01/frameproblempdf-applicationpdf-object.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-6531311343326505380Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:50:00 +00002008-01-07T23:22:02.235-05:00The paper Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment (2002 PDF) by Jon Kleinberg proposes the following definition of the problem of efficiently and reliably finding documents on the web out of the billions available, a problem he names the Abundance Problem: "The number of pages that could reasonably be returned as relevant is far too large for a human user to digest. To provide http://kashori.com/2007/12/semantic-web-meets-abundance-problem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-2308581584985828995Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:04:00 +00002007-12-29T18:48:39.520-05:00In the paper Global Abductive Inference and Authoritative Sources, or, How Search Engines Can Save Cognitive Science* by Andy Clark 2002 (PDF), Clark presents a problem that looks very much like the one I mention in Words (or URI) as Locations in the Fabric of Context, but he refers to it has the "Frame Problem", and attributes its origin with John McCarthy and and Pat Hayes. Clark also presents http://kashori.com/2007/12/solutions-to-frame-problem.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-3127309451811891360Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:42:00 +00002007-12-28T11:15:01.235-05:00From Section 4 of Tarski's 1944 paper, hosted on John Sowa's website, titled The Semantic Conception of Truth: "the fundamental conventions regarding the use of any language require that in any utterance we make about an object it is the name of the object which must be employed, and not the object itself. In consequence, if we wish to say something about a sentence, for example, that it is true,http://kashori.com/2007/12/semantic-conception-of-information.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-5444773943013741565Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:19:00 +00002007-12-13T09:02:43.515-05:00Neither Brain nor Ghost - Book Chapter Summaries by Teed Rockwell. In the post, Words (or URI) as Locations in the Fabric of Context, I speculated that a full interpretation of a name (or word, or URI in the semantic web) would require access to a web of associations extending out very far in computational space. But Teed Rockwell, in his book, Neither Brain nor Ghost, points to a solution. "http://kashori.com/2007/12/neither-brain-nor-ghost-book-chapter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-6822283362323327784Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:42:00 +00002007-12-10T23:42:37.374-05:00A name does not move from place to place. There is no 'Transfer of information'. However, signals are transfered, by transducers. There is no information before the sense of it occurs. A sign becomes a name with a reference when it coincides with a shift of attention towards an object in the world. The name, the object, and the shift of attention to the object - these three all happen at once, ithttp://kashori.com/2007/10/name-sense-reference-attention-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-1763064340364512899Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:50:00 +00002007-11-27T21:58:17.820-05:00To name is to know. Paglia extends this with, " to know is to control." From Wikipedia's Name article, we hear from Shakespere on names, Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other http://kashori.com/2007/05/nomen-est-numen-to-name-is-to-know.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-116466883052344665Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:00:00 +00002007-05-08T08:54:02.536-05:00common knowledgesemanticsevolutionlanguageThere is still controversy, but most agree that big globally accepted ontologies are not likely in the near future, if ever. Critics of the Semantic Web (upper case) say such ontologies are required and that this will be the downfall of the technology, since the required global agreements will never happen in the real, factious world. Semantic Web proponents come back and say this criticism is http://kashori.com/2006/11/semantic-web-and-symbolic-theft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-116489156609533988Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:05:00 +00002007-04-14T22:02:56.586-05:00I want to compare a large library with the web. And I want to equate the call numbers on books and other materials that are "on the stacks" with web pages and other materials that are "on the web". You use call numbers to access books and other information resources. You use URI to access web pages and other information resources. Now lets supose you decided to create a new language for http://kashori.com/2006/11/semantic-stacks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-1263785627151552255Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:20:00 +00002007-04-14T11:37:03.810-05:00contextambiguitysemanticsIn his book, The Rediscovery of the Mind, John Searle, writes about his hypothesis of the Background, which asserts that all language semantics depends on a shared context, "It is tempting to think that this argument rests on ambiguity, marginal cases, etc. But that is a mistake. Once full explicitness has been achieved, once all structural and lexical ambiguities have been removed, the problem http://kashori.com/2007/04/john-searles-hypothesis-of-background.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-116475928358923881Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:15:00 +00002007-04-14T10:29:02.547-05:00I read a lot of claims like the following found in a blog post by Lee Feigenbaum (aka http://thefigtrees.net/lee/ldf-card#LDF) titled "Semantic Web Technologies in the Enterprise", "But when I assert facts about http://thefigtrees.net/lee/ldf-card#LDF, there's no chance of semantic ambiguity. Anyone sharing that URI is referencing the same concept that I am, and my software can take advantage ofhttp://kashori.com/2006/11/claims-about-power-of-uri.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-116671046504584949Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:52:00 +00002007-01-02T05:08:36.860-05:00I agree here with Phil Dawes. And I'm glad he spotted those statements in Jim Hendler's article and pointed them out to us. I believe this is the major problem remaining to be solved for the semantic web. Sure, you can mint any URI, and by definition of the formal system - whatever it is that is denoted by that URI by me shall be the very same concept that is denoted by you. The problem is that http://kashori.com/2006/12/comment-on-post-by-phil-dawes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-116641803441760644Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:34:00 +00002006-12-18T00:24:46.533-05:00Are the following URI allowable according to web and semantic web standards? Are they ambiguous? Are they useful? In each case, the referent would depend on the context of the use of the URI. http://kashori.com/ontology/indexicals.owl#I http://kashori.com/ontology/indexicals.owl#you http://kashori.com/ontology/indexicals.owl#this http://kashori.com/ontology/indexicals.owl#it http://kashori.com/http://kashori.com/2006/12/can-there-be-uri-for-concepts-i-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115750523163937397Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:57:00 +00002006-10-08T07:39:21.826-05:00What would make a good application for the semantic web? I recently got to thinking about this question after hearing of a start-up company in my home town, Charlottesville, VA. OpenQ is a small, young, and profitable company providing something they call Key Opinion Leader (KOL) management software. Similar to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, KOL software helps manage a criticalhttp://kashori.com/2006/09/use-case-for-semantic-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115750108382312819Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:01:00 +00002006-09-05T20:14:34.766-05:00Norman Walsh has recently posted on using URI as names. I agree with the basic argument of these essays, HTTP URI make good names. But I take issue with some of the assumptions he makes about names. For example, that good URI are, or should be, if used properly, unambiguous. I believe that I have proved, in my post Problems Identifying Information that, as names, some ambiguous URI are http://kashori.com/2006/09/power-of-ambiguous-uri.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115388106678627710Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:30:00 +00002006-07-27T22:08:43.190-05:00When viewed in an absolute sense, I mean when you consider all the different senses in which it may be used, a word like 'bank' is ambiguous. But a particular utterance of the word, in a particular context, is not ambiguous. Now I think it is the utterance in context that is fundamental and it is derived, secondary, and artificial to treat words as absolute and discrete. This requires the view http://kashori.com/2006/07/words-or-uri-as-locations-in-fabric-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115308229248607166Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:37:00 +00002006-08-24T20:08:19.043-05:00In an article titled, THE SEMANTIC WEB: AN INTERVIEW WITH TIM BERNERS-LEE, "TBL: The goal of the Semantic Web initiative is to create a universal medium for the exchange of data where data can be shared and processed by automated tools as well as by people. The Semantic Web is designed to smoothly interconnect personal information management, enterprise application integration, and the global http://kashori.com/2006/07/is-data-semantics-different-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115284190425834643Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:21:00 +00002006-11-16T17:35:45.406-05:00The W3C's Technical Architecture Group has published a document titled Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One which states that, "By design a URI identifies one resource. We do not limit the scope of what might be a resource. The term "resource" is used in a general sense for whatever might be identified by a URI. It is conventional on the hypertext Web to describe Web pages, images, http://kashori.com/2006/07/problems-identifying-information.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115223701199507817Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:33:00 +00002006-07-07T21:20:48.590-05:00Uniqueness does not prevent ambiguity. Consider a fingerprint. Fingerprints have for some time been used to identify suspects in criminal investigations. A human fingerprint is considered unique, except in the case of identical twins. It would seem to be an ideal identifier for a person. But it might also be used for many other purposes. A gruesome example, after an airliner crash, a fingerprint http://kashori.com/2006/07/ambiguity-and-identity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837648.post-115186762344936355Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:47:00 +00002006-07-02T14:31:09.403-05:00So does the experiment described in Anatomy of a Reference matter? Here is why I think it is important. I can create a unique URI for each one of my blue drinking glasses. And I can pair them off one by one, every glass with one of the unique URIs. I can even put a representation of each glass at the web address that will be accessed when the corresponding URI is fed into a browser. And yet, by http://kashori.com/2006/07/how-to-identify-resources-with-uri.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (John Black)0