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Record W1911155832

Expression of uncertainty in linguistic data

2008· article· en· W1911155832 on OpenAlex
Alain Auger, J. Roy

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Conference on Information Fusion · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicNatural Language Processing Techniques
Canadian institutionsDefence Research and Development Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmbiguityComputer scienceCertaintyExpression (computer science)UtteranceNatural languageDeep linguistic processingNatural language processingInterpretation (philosophy)LinguisticsArtificial intelligenceSine qua nonPoint (geometry)Natural (archaeology)Mathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper briefly introduces several of the aspects to take into account in order to properly describe and analyze the expression of uncertainty in textual data. Different types of ambiguity inherent to the nature of language itself are presented. Linguistic ambiguities can be observed between symbols and the meanings arbitrarily attached to them. Many natural language processing techniques can be applied to texts to minimize linguistic ambiguities. Referential ambiguities relate to the world and can be observed through extra-linguistic environments, each potentially impacting the interpretation of natural language utterance. From a linguistic point of view, the identification and automatic tagging of expressions of certainty/uncertainty in textual data is a sine qua non condition to enable the empirical study and modeling of how humans assess certainty through their use of language. Such analysis is required to generate future language-dependent models of certainty/uncertainty suitable for information fusion systems.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.906
Threshold uncertainty score0.296

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.056
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.267 · 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