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Human Markup Language
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<h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2> <p>HumanML was proposed to "fundamentally enhance the human communications process, through the use of XML, with the purpose of ending human misunderstanding".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> It addresses this purpose by standardizing the presentation of details relevant to communicative acts. Such details may be social, contextual, gestural, or psychological, and may pertain to an individual in an act of communication or to the context of that communication. For example, just as Internet users may use <a href="/facts/Emoticon/f0jk3C14">emoticons</a> ("smileys") to convey emotional information relevant to their essentially textual communication, HumanML codes the emotional importance and intent of a signal in a series of markup tags. The standard aims to provide an arbitrarily detailed way to represent information pertinent to any act of communication. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Emotion_Markup_Language/j6KUjma6">Emotion Markup Language</a></li></ul> <ul><li>Peltz, Jay. <a href="http://www.dmreview.com/dmdirect/20050729/1033534-1.html">HumanML: The Vision</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080508235628/http://www.dmreview.com/dmdirect/20050729/1033534-1.html">Archived</a> 2008-05-08 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a>. <i>DM Direct</i>, July 2005.</li> <li>Pena, Bill. <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2001/09/humanml_emotional_metadata.html">HumanML: Emotional Metadata</a>. ONLamp.com. O'Reilly: 8 September 2001.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Thunga, Rajneeth Kumar & Karl Best. Call for Support. <a href="http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200103/msg00322.html" target="_blank">http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200103/msg00322.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Brooks, Rex, ed. Human Markup Language Primary Base Specification 1.0. <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/60/HM.Primary-Base-Spec-1.0.html" target="_blank">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/60/HM.Primary-Base-Spec-1.0.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Thunga, Rajneeth Kumar & Karl Best. Call for Support. <a href="http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200103/msg00322.html" target="_blank">http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200103/msg00322.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>