[Dialogue] Generative Empty Space

[Jim Baumbach]

Reminds me of the time I was testifying as an expert witness for the 
prosecution in a civil suit when the defense attorney asked me a 
compound question that was horribly unintelligible.  I looked at the 
jury, smiled, and said "I don't have the foggiest idea what you are 
asking me!  Could you break that down into simple questions for me?"  
When he did, the questions were quite trivial and seemed to reflect the 
attorney's frustration and lack of understanding of the plaintiff's 
case.  The plaintiff won a multi-million lawsuit against two chemical 
companies.

Jim Baumbach

frank bremner wrote:
> And one thing I teach Maths students:
>
> 1)  If the question reads like gibberish, divide it into paragraphs and 
> maybe sentences.
>
> 2)  Then underline key words.
>
> 3)  Then it may - I emphasise, may - be more intelligible.
>
> Cheers
>
> Frank Bremner
> (From the antipodes (?), the Land Down Under where women glow (?) and men 
> chunder(?).)
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>> From: "Ray & Elaine Richmond" <richmonder at iinet.net.au>
>> Reply-To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
>> To: "'Colleague Dialogue'" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>,"'ICA ToP Trainers'" 
>> <ica-toptrainers at igc.topica.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Generative Empty Space
>> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:03:41 +1000
>>
>> Wow!! and some people complain about 'our' jargon!!
>> Elaine Richmond
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
>> [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of David Dunn
>> Sent: Wednesday, 30 May 2007 8:16 AM
>> To: 'Dialogue' Listserv; ICA ToP Trainers
>> Subject: [Dialogue] Generative Empty Space
>>
>> I thought that many of you would get a kick out of this abstract for a 
>> paper
>> called:
>>
>>     
>>> "Generative semantic clustering in spatial hypertext"
>>>
>>> ABSTRACT
>>>
>>> This paper presents an iterative method for generative semantic
>>> clustering of related information elements in spatial hypertext
>>> documents. The goal is to automatically organize them in ways that are
>>> meaningful to the user. We consider a process in which elements are
>>> gradually added to a spatial hypertext. The method for generating
>>> meaningful layout is based on a quantitative model that measures and
>>> represents the mutual relatedness between each new element and those
>>> already in the document. The measurement is based on attributes such
>>> as metadata, term vectors, user interest expressions, and document
>>> locations. We call this model relatedness potential, because it
>>> represents how much the new element is related and thus attracted to
>>> existing elements as a vector field across the space. Using this field
>>> as a gradient potential, the new element will be placed near the most
>>> attracted elements, forming clusters of related elements. The relative
>>> magnitude of contribution of attributes to relatedness potential can
>>> be controlled through an interactive interface. Unlike prior
>>> clustering methods such as k-means and self-organizing-maps,
>>> relatedness potential works well in iterative systems, in which the
>>> collection of elements is not defined a priori. Further, users can
>>> invoke relatedness potential to re-cluster elements, as they engage in
>>> on-the-fly provisional acts of direct manipulation reorganization and
>>> latching of a few most significant elements. A preliminary study 
>>>       
>> indicates
>> that users find this method generates spatial hypertext documents that are
>> easier to read.
>>
>> I read that as an astonishingly verbose definition of "gestalting" or most
>> specifically, "clustering" as practiced by ToP facilititators and others.
>>
>> :")
>>
>> David Dunn
>>
>> PS.
>> Actually quite interesting, isn't it!
>>
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