Delineating Cultural Models: Extending the Cultural Mixture Model

Abstract

This report describes research and recommendations for describing cultural knowledge. We discuss some of the approaches that have been used in the past, which have considered culture as a factor-analytic problem, as a cognitive style and as a set of shared knowledge. We develop a set of recommendations for extending Cultural Mixture Modeling (CMM) to move beyond the shared knowledge perspective and enable integration of the factor-analytic perspective as well. We provide a number of examples and recommendations regarding how structural models provide the appropriate representation for extending CMM and discuss issues related to statistical representation and inference that will need to be addressed on this path.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA572740

Entities

People

  • Andrew Boettcher
  • Michael Young
  • Shane T Mueller

Organizations

  • SRA International Inc

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Random Variables
  • Reasoning

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  • Software Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML