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Here are three more views of context:
Context is discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation.
Context is information that characterizes the situation of an entity, person, place, or object, and includes facts, circumstances and conditions which “surround” an event such as its absolute and relative location in space and time.
Context is an abstract model of the variables that are important and relevant to a mission or task. Figuratively, context is the “eye of the beholder.” Context describes the salient features of a given environment,system, or situation (here & now) within a problem space. A wealth of information is required to infer and interpret an object’s context. Relevance is determined by the type of object and the current task of the user, e.g., making a phone call, doing e-mail, writing a report. Contexts can be associated with to-do items, projects, activities, etc.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: At 3:37 PM -0700 1/15/08, Sharma, Ravi wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
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Pat I would be happy to learn about what the group has already defined the word ³Context² to mean.
I said there were many :-) Not from 'the group' (which group?) but from the broader community, including the participants at the several context workshops, and contributors to various journals. A few:
1. The surrounding or preceding text of an occurrence of a word or phrase, which disambiguates its intended meaning. Usually restricted to the immediate sentence. 2. Similarly, but applied to a conversation, and meaning the 'common ground' (mutually agreed beliefs, topics, etc.) of the participants at that point; usually extends well beyond one sentence or utterance. 3. Similar to 2., but rather than common ground, the actual physical setting of the conversation, the 'situation' in which it is taking place 4. A set of assumptions or beliefs providing a temporary focus of reasoning and used to select particular axioms or theories applied to a concept or concepts (aka "microtheory") 5. A linguistic or cultural tradition providing the origin of a text, and which must be taken into account in order to fully extract the intended meaning of the text. 6. Anything which satisfies the axioms of some 'theory of contexts'. This of course depends on the theory: they tend to be very weak theories.
That will probably do for a start.
Pat
Thanks for your help in anticipation of the same and any links relating to the same. Best Regards. Ravi (Dr. Ravi Sharma) Senior Enterprise Architect Vangent, Inc. Technical Excellence Center (TEC) 8618 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 310, Vienna VA 22182
(o) 703-827-0638, (c) 3132041740 www.vangent.com
From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Hayes
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To: [ontolog-forum]
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Scheduling a Discussion [was: CL, CG, IKL and the relationship between symbols in the logical "universe of discourse" and individuals in the "real world"] At 11:58 AM -0700 1/15/08, Sharma, Ravi wrote:
Context:
Think of
No, no. We are a long way past "think of"-style brainstorming. Give us your actual *definition* of 'context'. Or choose from the large variety that have already been proposed. If you have no definition, please come back when you have clarified your thinking well enough to make a useful contribution, so that the rest of will have some inkling what it is that you are talking about.
concatenation of ideas, also precursor discussion link, also
from computer memory stack based on pointers where non-contiguous chunks
of relevant executable code reside.
There are context switching exercises in cultures and people have
practices of switching up to eight contexts in a round table
So a context is something that can be picked up from a table? A physical object? That IS a new idea. Details?? Pat
and picking
in each cycle from where they left in the last round in a round-robin
fashion.
Ravi
(Dr. Ravi Sharma) Senior Enterprise Architect
Vangent, Inc. Technical Excellence Center (TEC)
8618 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 310, Vienna VA 22182
(o) 703-827-0638, (c) 3132041740 www.vangent.com
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[mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F.
Sowa
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 1:45 PM
To: [ontolog-forum]
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Scheduling a Discussion [was: CL, CG, IKL
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Duane,
I did not read that document in detail, but from just skimming it, I could not find a definition of the word 'context':
> In an effort to share what Adobe means/is doing in the context arena,
> there is a document that explains some aspects we are technically
> linking together for our LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Business Activity
> Monitoring (BAM) servers here:
>
> http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_lc_bamworkbench
>
> Section 2 is a good place to start or just search for the term
> "context". I hope this sheds some light on our interest.
That section talks about "context data", but it does not give
a definition of the word 'context'.
From what I can gather, the document seems to use the word
'context' in roughly the same way I was suggesting: it is a
syntactic notion that identifies a context by a reference to
some container of the relevant data. It does not state any
axioms for anything remotely resembling a "context logic".
John
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