[Corpora-List] Polysemy and Subjectivity in Ontolgies - the HDBI example

[Rich Cooper]

I'm interested in constructing ontologies from that initial condition of
only measured data, not rules and relationships just yet (later in the
ontology's development, we will add rules and relationships, but not just
yet).  Call this ontology O0.  Initially it has a set of samples, and each
one can be accessed by the identifiers O0[1] through O0[O0.count] if that
notation is acceptable to you.  

 

Here is a quote from this type of research, which is rather typical of
medical databases being KAed:

 

Such a balanced data base with weighted and resealed scores would also
support a variety of cross tabulation studies to show the joint occurrence
of different preferences or avoidances in a balanced sample reflective of
the larger population. Generalizability studies to different cultures would
require a data base appropriate to each culture.

 

Here is the study from which this quote came, if you are interested in
deeper context: 

 

http://www.hbdi.com/uploads/100021_resources/100331.pdf 

 

Rather than starting with predefined classes, users started with a database
of numerical data scores, and then had observers rank the observed facts,
which relate to personality inventories of various measures which account
for subjective differences among a large number of people - 439 in some of
these factors.  

 

Then they applied a theory - the HDBI study checked validity of the theory's
various classes (A, B, C and D) in a multidimensional space and found four
prominent clusters, together with a fairly small fifth group (highly
distributed) of other samples - the outliers.  

 

The study deals with individual differences of the people in the sample
measurements, and how the sample population fits into the various clusters.
I think it could illuminate any discussion we might want to have on
subjective factors in ontologies, on how ontologies are perceived, and on
how they can be constructed from real data.  

 

Is anyone interested?  Please read the study if you can, though you might
want to post while reading it as well.  

 

Thanks,

-Rich

 

Sincerely,

Rich Cooper

EnglishLogicKernel.com

Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com

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