Dealing with Mistakes in a Referent Tracking System

2nd International Ontology for the Intelligence Community Conference

Werner CEUSTERS

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Referent Tracking (RT) is a paradigm introduced in 2005 intended to provide a means of ensuring unambiguous reference to the particulars in reality that are mentioned in statements of given sorts [TD1DT]. Central to this paradigm, which was conceived originally in the context of work on electronic health records, is the use of globally unique singular identifiers – called IUIs (for Unique Instance Identifiers) – that stand proxy for the entities in reality to which they refer. For an identifier (ID) to be a IUI, it must refer to one and only one particular, and this tight connection between the particular and its IUI must be asserted by an author in an RT system (RTS) [TD2DT]. One purpose of the RTS is to give agents who wish to make statements about entities in reality a means to retrieve IUIs for particulars to which identifiers have already been assigned, and to create IUIs in other cases. Another purpose is to provide an efficient way to store data about particulars in terms of their relations to other particulars and to the universals which they instantiate [TD3DT]. The RT paradigm is associated with developments such as the LSID initiative andthe so-called ‘web of things’, but offers a number of advantages brought about by the strict ontological principles under which unique identification is achieved. [First Paragraph]