Hasil untuk "Cybernetics"

H. Hatze

Ranulph Glanville

PurposeThis paper introduces the other papers in this issue, describing and arguing for the context in which they were written – a conference that was, unusually, based in conversation rather than reporting through the presentation of papers: and a refereeing process that continued after the initial presentation (at the conference) of the work reported, thus allowing responses to critical comments. Many of our authors do not come from scientific backgrounds, and writing papers such as we are used to is a novel experience to, and discipline for, them.Design/methodology/approachThe organisation and structure of the conference and the processes of refereeing involved are described; and the argument is made that the particularities of each are more cybernetic than the more familiar arrangements.FindingsThe conference processes were greatly valued by the authors. This is evident in the papers presented in this volume, although the convention of presenting only the final form of the paper may mean it is only evident to those who have been involved in the process of writing and refereeing.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations of the approach presented here are a combination of what we can imagine (supported by hard work) and the cultural willingness of funding sources to accept the unfamiliar.Practical implicationsThe contents of this volume, that form an outcome of the conference, show it is possible and interesting to create a “non‐standard” conference based in conversation, which searches for new questions rather than reporting answers to old ones: and that papers produced within a conversational process of refereeing and discussion allow both development of research‐in‐writing, and a good quality outcome. We can and should meet in “better” ways.Social implicationsThe conference and papers associated with it show that meetings in which a conversational approach is taken can be viable, not only as academic occasions but in their ability to generate papers of quality. This opens the academic world to different types of meeting and different ways of associating.Originality/valueThe value of this paper lies in the arguments made concerning conferences and refereeing processes. The originality is in the way these are presented as the embodiment of cybernetic understandings and processes (thus realising a cybernetics of cybernetics). The quality of the introduction is enriched by frequent references to material of generation and of record that exists as the legacy of the conference “Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics – A Meta‐Disciplinary Conversation” at frequently cited urls on the conference web site. The evidence is there, as well as in this volume.

K. A. Stevens

M. N. Oguztöreli

E. Zwicker

Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics NAS of Ukraine, O.V. Palagin, M.G. Petrenko et al.

The article develops an approach that includes the analysis of short natural language messages in Ukrainian and the automatic generation of queries in SPARQL and Cypher based on them. The Apache Jena Fuseki server is used as a SPARQL query processing tool, and the Neo4J graph database is used as a data warehouse or ontological knowledge base. The latter is the most common open source database, highperformance and well-scalable, i.e., capable of working with large amounts of data. In addition, approaches to building formal queries based on natural language queries for Cypher are little known and require further development. The approach is based on the fact that a user's natural language query is subjected to a series of sequential checks. Their results determine the set of semantic types expressed in the phrase (natural language query) and the corresponding concepts that define them. The result of these checks is a set of four values – the codes of the check results, as well as the subjects and predicates, if present. This information is enough to select a set of basic templates for formal queries. Based on the results of such basic checks, the main basic templates for generating the final request are created. The proposed approach has a basic query template aimed at obtaining information of a certain type in a given form, as well as additional modifier templates that optionally construct query strings in the corresponding blocks of the main query by introducing additional conditions. The article describes the process of automatic generation of SPARQL queries to a contextual ontology using the example of a knowledge base of medical articles from peer-reviewed open access journals. The peculiarity of the approach is that the formal query is automatically built from blocks of templates (main and auxiliary), which are customizable in accordance with certain semantic categories present in the analyzed text and the entities that specify them.

RONALD R. YAGER

Zbyněk Pitra

Qiiang Gao

T.S. Sundresh

Ya. Z. Tsypkin

P. J. Sobey

Geoffrey Sampson

GEORGE SPENCER-BROWN

Edgar Taschdjian