> Classification is a popular subject in AI and especially data mining, I did > not read the paper but there is a lot different technique. And having an > article in ZDnet and making a round in the blogospher is not reliable > indicator of a scientific breakthrough.
I did some work on semantic classification while at IBM Research. The system was called KROPS, a combination of a rule-based programming language based on OPS and a semantic network by Eric Mays called KREP. I showed that there is a dual relationship between semantic nets and rete-network rules, a unification that allows rules to be expressed as classification and vice-versa. KREP uses a special kinds of classification called subsumption which has provable properties of the classification. You can read about subsumption here: http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/papers/macgregor/aaai94.pdf KROPS (KREP/OPS) was the basis for IBM's FAME project http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/363/ibmrd3603H.pdf KROPS is described in: "Integrating rules and inheritance networks in a knowledge-based financial marketing consultation system" Proc. HICCS (1988) Pages 496-500 t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
