The Semantic Web and Human Inference: A Lesson from Cognitive Science

A paper written by Takashi Yamauchi. It was presented at the ISWC2007+ASWC2007.

[edit] Abstract

For the development of Semantic Web technology, researchers and developers in the Semantic Web community need to focus on the areas in which human reasoning is particularly difficult. Two studies in this paper demonstrate that people are predisposed to use class-inclusion labels for inductive judgments. This tendency appears to stem from a general characteristic of human reasoning – using heuristics to solve problems. The inference engines and interface designs that incorporate human reasoning need to integrate this general char-acteristic underlying human induction.

A linked list of all papers is provided in the article on ISWC2007+ASWC2007 papers. This article has originally been created from the ISWC 2007/ASWC 2007 metadata.