The approach in that paper doesn't require any special assumptions, and could be applied to your example, but I don't have time to write up an explanation of how to do the calculations ... you'll have to read the paper yourself if you're curious ;-)
That approach is not implemented in PLN right now but we have debated integrating it with PLN as in some ways it's subtler than what we currently do in the code... ben On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't know this paper, but I do know approaches based on the > principle of maximum/optimum entropy. They usually requires much more > information (or assumptions) than what is given in the following > example. > > I'd be interested to know what the solution they will suggest for such > a situation. > > Pei > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Think about a concrete example: if from one source the system gets > >> P(A-->B) = 0.9, and P(P(A-->B) = 0.9) = 0.5, while from another source > >> P(A-->B) = 0.2, and P(P(A-->B) = 0.2) = 0.7, then what will be the > >> conclusion when the two sources are considered together? > > > > There are many approaches to this within the probabilistic framework, > > one of which is contained within this paper, for example... > > > > http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16174172 > > > > (I have a copy of the paper but I'm not sure where it's available for > > free online ... if anyone finds it please post the link... thx) > > > > Ben > > ________________________________ > > agi | Archives | Modify Your Subscription > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome " - Dr Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
