Re: Evidence for backing statements

Dear Dan,

That is interesting. My thesis (3/4 done) is on integrating Ontologies 
(using OWL-DL or OWL 1.1 as an exemplar) with Argumentation (which is an 
extension of previous work in NM logics) to represent conflict. I'm 
using Breast Cancer therapy choice as a domain.

I'll have a look at the links you sent and probably be in touch....

Matt

Dan Brickley wrote:
> Matt Williams wrote:
>>
>> I've been lurking & reading the discussion with interest.
>>
>> It might be worth pointing out that there is an ongoing attempt to 
>> classify/ represent evidential links/ weight/ etc. started in the 
>> legal domain by people such as Wigmore and continued by people such as 
>> David Schum & William Twining. There's currently a 
>> Leverhulme-sponsored research programme on "Evidence Science", 
>> centered at UCL, London.
>>
>> Such efforts don't seem to easily map to rdf (they're often based on 
>> Bayesian models), but might provide some inspiration, although some of 
>> the legal niceties may be unnecessary.
> 
> Interesting! There's also another related group here in W3Cland - an 
> incubator on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Web, see
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/ ...though things are only just 
> starting up. The only mailing list traffic so far is about scheduling 
> the first telecon.
> The charter has some notes on what they're doing:
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/charter ...and Bayes gets a few 
> mentions there.
> 
> My inclination with RDF and evidence/probability, ... is that without 
> reinventing the RDF graph model, it is likely easier to attach 
> probability and other annotations to collections of statements, rather 
> than to individual triples. This can be done for example by making 
> assertions about an RDF/XML document, ... and is somehow related to the 
> ability in SPARQL to associate a graph with a URI. For example see 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#queryDataset
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 

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