Interactive Causal Schematics for Qualitative Scientific Explanations

Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

2007

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Science is a complex, but highly structured, activity. We propose that reports about scientific research would benefit by reflecting that structure more systematically than is found evening scientific articles. We apply structures for the components of the complete research activity that include the research question, the conceptual model, the research procedure, the data analysis, and the conclusions. We show some complete, though simple, examples and describe issues for extending the approach to collections of complex research reports.

Section: Elements Of Scientific Research Reportsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Highly structured scientific publications

Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

2007

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“…The Time Markup Language (TimeML, Ingria & Pustejovsky, 2004) provided for marking up text with descriptions of Events in extreme detail. Allen et al (2005) show that Events are often best thought of as state changes of entities squarely in the computer-science modeling tradition.…”

Section: Events and Causation 31 Events In Textsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization, causation, and history

Proceedings of the 2011 iConference

2011

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History may be seen as a tapestry of interwoven events. The discourse structure of that tapestry may be identified and used to support visualization for examining and interacting with the tapestry of history.Specifically, we propose temporally constrained causal relationships as a key for organizing that tapestry. Because Events occur at different levels of granularity and similar ones may occur with cumulative effect, we introduce Trends. Trends are first-class objects; that is, in this model Trends may be causes of Events. To facilitate interaction with a rich tapestry of complex historical events such as the American Civil War, we also introduce Threads. These are chains of Events, and presentations of them may be considered a type of narrative. We describe a panel-oriented visualization interface that shows causal Threads of Events and Trends leading up to the Civil War. This initial prototype is intended to present history at the level of an intermediate textbook. Finally, we introduce a semi-formal notation for describing Events, Threads, and Trends, and propose directions for future research to refine the prototype that may enable broader, deeper, more flexible, and more complete exploration/presentation of historical materials.

“…While we have explored applications in geology [10], much of our previous work has focused on descriptions of human history. Specifically, we have been interested in information organization for the contents of digitized historical newspapers.…”

Section: The Challenge Of Complex Dynamic Semantic Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the description of the complex attributes needs to be coordinated. 10 Because a complex entity may have a great many subentities (e.g., molecules of water in a glass of water) we will not be able to model them all. Thus, we might focus on only one or two of them as examples and suggest that their behavior generalizes to all the others but the descriptive system needs discourse structures (Section 7.D) to handle that in a consistent way.…”

Section: A Struture Of Complex Entitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Architectures for complex semantic models

2015 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BIGCOMP)

Chu

2015

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We have been exploring applications for complex semantic models such as rich media science and history digital libraries. In this paper, we consider in more detail a range of services which could be implemented as well as technical details for those implementations.Many semantic tools are now available but these have rarely, if ever, been applied across broad and dynamic sets of complex instances. Modeling detailed histories involves complex entities interacting in complex ways.We consider architectures such as the Basic Formal Ontology and objectoriented models and we apply them in hybrid implementations using Jena/Java and Slate.