Re: draft RE my action item (was Re: Agenda for phone meeting 31 January 2008)

I attach here a file that captures a fair bit of my diagram.

Hope it helps,

Bill

On Jan 30, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Marc Schroeder wrote:

>
> Bill,
>
> I agree with Ian that the current exercise, from my point of view,  
> was about getting a "feel" of the "syntax" associated with various  
> representations, not about immediately designing a "meaningful"  
> structure within any given framework. The various ad hoc choices in  
> the other examples illustrate that, and raise interesting questions  
> worth discussion.
>
> On the other hand, you are asking very interesting and relevant  
> questions, so let me briefly reply.
>
> Bill Jarrold schrieb:
>> How in the world will we deal with all these differences of opinion?
>> With changes in the field as affective science evolves....The key to
>> me seems to be to (a) allow people to continue to debate what is the
>> correct taxoomony and yet (b) still let people who need to use some
>> term set at least make some headway and leverage *something* without
>> having to wait for the people in (a) to reach conssensus.
>
> Exactly. So even though there is no chance to have a unified  
> emotion theory any time soon, there is *some* consensus among  
> *some* people, and we should provide a flexible mechanism for  
> encoding that, without deciding for a camp ourselves. And if  
> engineers decide they need to build bridges between camps that  
> theorists would never endorse as valid, but for which there is an  
> application need, we should let them. Actually, maybe, just maybe,  
> the experience of what works and what doesn't in practice can  
> inform theory...!
>
>> Okay, I have provisionally assumed that allowing for multiple
>> taxonomies (or even more complex -- multiple theories) is a  
>> requirement.
>
> Yes. BUT in order to avoid complete chaos, there should be clearly  
> defined ways of saying that one is "using Ekman's six basic  
> emotions" or "the concept of mood dimensions as in Gebhard 2007" or  
> "the distinction of types of affective states as in Scherer 2000"  
> etc. So the idea is, let them use what they want *if* they make  
> their choices explicit.
>
> In EARL, we did this using a separate namespace for each  
> configuration of annotations [1] -- not very modular (you could not  
> simply refer in the document itself to the various label sets you  
> were using, but needed to create a new Schema for every specific  
> combination), but OK it was a start.
>
> [1] http://emotion-research.net/earl/schemadesign#SchemaDialects
>
>> TECHNICAL QUESTION: Any sense as to what kinds of tools
>> might actually do that markup? Something pre-existing? protege?
>> Something custom created?)
>
> This is another really good question. We should talk about it. For  
> machine recognition and generation, of course both the generation  
> and the interpretation of the markup will be done by software  
> components; but for manual labelling of data, what would one use? I  
> know that for annotating videos, colleagues in Paris and Belfast  
> are using Anvil [2], but that labelling tool has its own data  
> formats, so getting an Emotion Markup from Anvil may need effort.
>
> [2] http://www.anvil-software.de/
>
>> Given the potential ugliness of namespaces perhaps we just need to
>> have everything be in one namespace but use different owl files.
>
> One important aspect is extensibility: we will not be able to  
> preview all the sets of emotion categories, for example, that our  
> users will want to use in their annotations. Often, these are quite  
> application-specific, so users will want to "plug in" their own  
> label set.
>
>> At first blush, my approach is to have a representation of that  
>> object
>> that we wish to makup.  Let me consider a specific real world case
>> that I hope is a decent exemplar of Alexander's use case?
>> Specifically I consider the point in Macbeth where Lady M says "Out
>> damn spot!"  How might I go aobut ontologizing this.
>> I will first do this diagramatically to give as easily grokable
>> description.  Then, hopefully, if time, will spell out the owl --
>> which I lament is not very human readable.
>> Now, some diagramatic notation conventions:
>> Slots or relations are have a name that begins with a lowercase
>> character (e.g. annotationTextIs)
>> Individuals (as opposed to classes) have a name that begins with a *
>> followed by an uppercase character, e.g. *Alexander.
>> Primitive Data types (e.g. strings, time instants, numbers, booleans)
>> are put in quotations.
>> *"Out damn spot!"
>> 	^
>> 	|
>> 	annotationTextIs
>> 	|
>> *Annotation24601
>> 	|
>> 	|--- annotationAuthor: *Alexander
>> 	|
>> 	|--- annotationTime: "2008-01-23T13:36"
>> 	|
>> 	|-- annotatedEmotion: *FearInstance35
>> 				|
>> 				|--instanceOf: *DC-2006-Fear
>> 				|
>> 				|--valence: "-0.8"
>> 				|
>> 				|--
>> <sstopping here>
>
> So if I understand you correctly, this is a stub of a graphical  
> representation of an OWL document containing a concrete emotion  
> annotation. "annotatedEmotion" is where the Emotion Markup really  
> starts, right? The line from *"Out damn spot!" to *Annotation24601  
> is an answer to our requirement 'Links to the "rest of the world":  
> Links to media'.
>
> I am not very firm in ontological theory, so I am uncertain about  
> the status of *FearInstance35: is this the specific emotion  
> annotated in this case, never to be used again, or is it an  
> "instance" in the sense that it is one particular kind of  
> combination of a categorical label and other annotations?
>
> Also, the way that you structure it, *FearInstance35 being an  
> "instanceOf" *DC-2006-Fear, doesn't that imply you are giving more  
> fundamental reality to the categorical representation compared to  
> the "valence" dimension (which is not, in the example, derived from  
> any particular theory)?
>
> So much for now, best regards,
> Marc
>
> -- 
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