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Record W2116890140 · doi:10.1109/icsmc.1997.637345

What is a symbolic measurement process?

2002· article· en· W2116890140 on OpenAlexaff
Lev Goldfarb, Sanjay Deshpande

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEvolutionary Algorithms and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRepresentation (politics)Computer scienceProcess (computing)Mathematical structureTheoretical computer scienceTransformation (genetics)Object (grammar)Mathematical theoryData structureAlgorithmArtificial intelligenceProgramming languageMathematics

Abstract

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Numbers have emerged historically as the most popular/convenient form of representation, and the basic scientific paradigm is built on the foundation of numeric, or quantitative, concepts. Measurement, as conventionally understood, is the corresponding process for (numeric) representation of objects or events. Any (including a future) measurement device is constructed based on the underlying mathematical structure that is thought appropriate for the purpose. It has gradually become clear that the classical numeric mathematical structures, and hence the corresponding (including all present) measurement devices, impose on "real" events/objects a very rigid form of representation, which cannot be modified dynamically in order to capture their combinative, or compositional, structure. To remove this fundamental limitation, a new mathematical structure-evolving transformation system (ETS)-was proposed earlier. This mathematical structure allows one to capture inductively the compositional structure of events. In other words, the model defines a new form of object representation-struct-that captures the combinative, or symbolic, structure of events. Moreover, this combinative structure, which represents what appears to be the only possible natural symbiosis of the discrete/symbolic and the continuous representations, in principle, cannot he captured by the classical mathematical structures. The authors briefly discuss the concept of a fundamentally new, biologically inspired, measurement process, inductive measurement process, based on the ETS.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
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: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.018
Scholarly communication0.0080.017
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

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 head0.042
GPT teacher head0.252
Teacher spread0.210 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2002
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