[Heartlogic-dev] parameterizing (was Re: appraisee)

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:16:19PM -0600, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > OK, now if we have parameterized "appraiser" then we can
> > parameterize "appraisee" also?
> 
> Sure.  But I think appraisee is a misleading name.  Appraisee suggest
> that it is an object of the appraiser's appraisal.  This is not,
> in general true.  Tracy might feel appreciation toward Mommy.  In this
> case Mommy is the object appraised, and appraisee might be a good name
> for Mommy's role.  But Tricy might feel happy about the event.  In this
> case Mommy is not the object appraised, but the event is.  But calling
> an event the appraisee is even more confusing since we expect -ee's to
> be agents.
> 
> Thus, drawing on my experience with Cyc, I think that Mommy is an actor
> in the situation but participant is an even better name for her role.
> participatingAgent is a spec slot of participant...And, of course, Mommy
> plays the role of "givingAgent" which is a spec slot of
> participatingAgent.
> 
> The slot hierarchy looks like this, roughly...
> 
> participant
>    ^
>    |
>    |
> participatingAgent
>    ^
>    |
>  (skip a few slots)
>    |
> givingAgent

Wow, we are actually making headway on this.  Cool.

> >   Cue: Mommy gives Tracy an apple.
> 
> Btw, emotion eliciting situation is what Clark Elliot
> has called the cue.

Do you have a citation for that?  It would be cool to include
such a citation in the glossary.

> Sorry for my obsession with names,
> but I think it really helps develop a shared understanding
> of a domain to have very good, non-misleading names.

Absolutely!  I feel like much of our conversation is just a matter
of probing for standard terms so I can expand the isomorphism
between my idiosyncratic conceptions and WLJ / established conceptions.

Now I want to double-check that we are on the same page.  We have
parameterized "appraiser" and "participatingAgent".  Here is how
I think it works:

  At bedtime daddy makes Toby some hot chocolate.
    participatingAgent = Toby, daddy
    appraiser = Toby

For our simple appraisal model, there are exactly two
participatingAgents for any given appraisal.  (Yet, there can be more
than two participants per cue.)  For any given appraisal, there is an
appraiser.  The appraiser is one of the two participatingAgents.
Correct?

Now I want to parameterize one more facet of appraisal.  Given this
cue / appraisal:

  At bedtime daddy makes Toby some hot chocolate.
    participatingAgents = Toby, daddy
    appraiser = Toby

Which parameter distinguishes between:

  How does Toby imagine Toby feels about receiving hot chocolate?
    (or simply "How does Toby feel about receiving hot chocolate?")

  How does Toby imagine daddy feels about giving hot chocolate?

In other words, who is the appraiser trying to mindread?
Can we call this parameter "point of view" or do you have
a better idea?
 
-- 
A new cognitive theory of emotion, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/aleader