HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Actions/RhetoricalStructure/meetings/20100125
Rhetorical Document Structure Group HCLS SIG W3C, Phone Meeting January 29th 2010
Attendees: Tudor Groza (TG), Paolo Ciccarese (PC), Keith Gutfreund (KG), Anita de Waard (AdW - chair), Alexandre Passant (AP), Jodi Schneider (JS), Joanne Luciano, Scott Marshall (scribe), Tim Clark, Jack Park
Discussions
- Paolo: Structuring a reference remains to be done (extracting and modeling in RDF)
- Tudor: I'm working on that
- Paolo: If I encounter a reference to another article, I should be able to attach that reference.
- Matthias: What do you mean a more 'document-centric' representation?
- Paolo: We don't yet refer to the article and the chunk of text where the claim is coming from.
- ... We want the annotator to be able to attach other references to the article.
- Anita: How do you encode that?
- Paolo: We encode it in RDF.
- ... Example: We can use CSS selectors to point to locations in HTML3
- Anita: Back to top of the agenda.
- ... I think that a few models were uploaded. Tudor uploaded ABCDE.
- http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Actions/RhetoricalStructure/models/medium
- Paolo: We could have 'core' sentences in the ABCDE model so I am fine with this.
- ... We can label a sentence as 'scientific discourse' (discourse element) according to the model (abstract).
- ... Usually, the Abstract represents the structure of the article but not all discourse within it.
- I am saying that ABCDE can be used to label the different sections according to Abstract type and sentences can be labelled at a finer granularity according to SWAN-SIOC labels. In this way, they can be combined.
- Joanne: Is the intent to capture the discourse within the paper as well as the literature?
- Anita: Yes.
- Joanne: Has this been done manually with a paper to create a standard?
- Anita: We haven't decided yet on the final structure so it's all manual at the moment.
- Tudor: We have all done this by hand with ABCDE, SWAN, and SALT.
- Anita: Would it be possible for Paolo and Tudor to upload an example marked up document?
- Tudor: Yes.
- Paolo: You can already browse it in SWAN.
- Anita: It would be easier if you upload a single example.
- Paolo: Just having the triples, you might find yourself going back to SWAN to look at it through the interface.
- ... I can give you the link to one document in the SWAN browser, as well as the triples.
- Anita: Back to your question Joanne: We are looking at various ways of modeling the structure of documents. We have started with ABCDE because it is the simplest.
- Medium is the structure that I made while I was writing my PhD. In this model, references are within the document. The Abstract could be a table of contents. The idea is that it should be very easy to access different components of a document.
- ... Do you think that this model would be useful?
- Tudor: It handles references better than ABCDE. Some terminology could be improved.
- ... i.e. made more general.
- Maybe we could take Background and split into Context and Motivation as an experiment.
- Anita: Maybe you could create a comparison grid.
- Paolo: We could consult with the SWAN curators (biologists that are reading the papers).
- Jack: Work at KMI with climate change articles, could try out the models on those articles
- ... Working on federation of structured discourse, centered around IBIS
- Anita: Your input would be welcome.
- Scott: Do you mean aggregation of information from disparate discourse sources, such as discussion forums, blogs, articles, etc. (ala SWAN-SIOC)?
- Jack: Yes, automatically without human curation
- Anita: Jack, could you send us something about your work?
- Jack: Yes, I can send pdf to individuals (it's a tech report). I'm also working on a platform for a Global Climate change portal in Korea (?), which is the deliverable of my PhD work.
- Anita: I spoke with Paul Groth recently (Concept Web Alliance), where people are working on a model for 'nanopublications'.
- ... Significant overlap with our material.
- Joanne: C-SHALS conference in Boston on Feb. 24 - 26, lot's of people from HCLS will be there.
- http://www.iscb.org/cshals2010-program
- Please spread the word about the Conference on Semantics in Health Care and Life Science http://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/cshals2010/cshals2010-flyer.pdf
Action items
- Jack to try models on global climate change discourse
- Paolo to consult with curators about models
- Tudor and Paolo upload a single document example
- Tudor to do an intermediate medium-grained model (in a comparison grid)
Dates
- Next call: February 15th 2010 , 9AM Boston / 2PM Irish / 3PM Amsterdam
- Paul Groth from the Concept Web Alliance to present his Nano-publications format