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Semantic Science: machine understandable scientific theories and data

2007· article· en· W2153748086 on OpenAlexaff
David Poole

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSemantic Web and Ontologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceOntologyPublicationSemantic interoperabilitySemantic data modelInformation retrievalInteroperabilityData scienceWorld Wide WebEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The aim of semantic science is to have scientific data and scientific theories in machine understandable form. Scientific theories make predictions on data. In the semantic science future, whenever someone does a scientific experiment, they publish the data using a formal ontology so that there is semantic interoperability; it can be compared with other data collected by others, and used to compare theories that make prediction on this data. When someone publishes a new theory, they publish it with respect to an ontology so they can test it on all available data about which it makes predictions. We could all see which theories predict the data better. By the use of formal ontologies, we could determine which are competing theories (when they make different predictions for the same data) and which are complementary. Whenever new data is collected, we can determine which theory better predicts the data. Human-made scientific theories can be compared with machine learned theories (of course, most theories are a mix). Imagine now the best theories applied to new cases: we can use the best medical theory to predict the disease a patient has, the best geological theory to predict where landslides will occur or the best economic theory to predict the effect of a policy change. This paper is preliminary and always under construction. If you have feedback, more references, please

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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)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.046
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.982
Threshold uncertainty score0.096

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.046
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0110.011
Science and technology studies0.0030.020
Scholarly communication0.0160.047
Open science0.0040.008
Research integrity0.0070.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.003

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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.273 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
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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Published2007
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