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Towards a logic of feature-based semantic science theories

2010· article· en· W1513254282 on OpenAlexaff
David Poole

Bibliographic record

VenuePrinciples of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSemantic Web and Ontologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceFeature (linguistics)Artificial intelligenceEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The aim of semantic science is to allow for the publications of ontologies, observation data, and hypotheses/theories. Hypotheses make predictions on data and on new cases. Those hypotheses that fit the available evidence are called theories. This paper considers how thoeries can be used for predictions in new cases. Theories are typically very narrow and not all of the inputs to a theory are observed, so to make predictions on a particular case, many theories need to be used. Without any global design, the available theories do not necessarily fit together nicely. This paper explains how theories can be combined into theory ensembles to make predictions on a particular case. This is needed to evaluate theories, and to make useful predictions. We motivate and give desiderata for theory ensembles for level 1, feature-based, semantic science, which assumes that the data and the theories can be described in terms of features (random variables).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.015
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.078

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0150.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0050.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.013
Scholarly communication0.0070.018
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0030.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.290 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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