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RE: Categories of Mismatches between Producer andConsumer?

• To: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Categories of Mismatches between Producer andConsumer?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:44:00 -0500

Welcome to the problems of HumanML:  the attempt 
to create a set of categories of those things/types 
that can affect a human communication.  Turns out 
the semiotics guys are waaaaay ahead here.

See "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".  To 
understand a culture one can study its artifacts. 
It is a nice analogy to the middle east from 
the perspective of the Americans.

Note that analogical discovery systems are essential 
to the problem of choice of choices.  Think case 
building by precedent.

len

From: Roger L. Costello [mailto:costello@m...]

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:

> It feels to me like you're ...

Ha! You (the consumer) are trying to read into what might be the
motivation for my (the producer) message (the data).  Interestingly,
this leads me to recognize another category:

Category 6: Social Environment Differences

1. Social Context: the producer creates the data within a certain 
   social context that may not be shared by the consumer.

   Example: A "flat" in the U.K. has a very different meaning in
   the U.S. (This is not a good example.  Anyone have a better 
   example?)

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