Title :
Fuzziness, uncertainty, vagueness, possibility, and probability in natural language
Author :
Raskin, Victor ; Taylor, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of English & Linguistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The paper reviews the status of fuzziness, vagueness, uncertainty, and probability in natural language with an emphasis on: aspects of natural language that pertain to each of the four phenomena; methods of their modeling and representation; computational treatment of these phenomena in natural language and information processing. The main thrust of the paper is the procedure for calculating the predominant type of uncertainty for a NL sentence.
Keywords :
fuzzy set theory; natural language processing; probability; NL sentence; information processing; natural language fuzziness; natural language possibility; natural language probability; natural language uncertainty; natural language vagueness; Dictionaries; Fuzzy logic; Natural languages; Possibility theory; Semantics; Uncertainty; computational semantics; fuzziness; possibility; probability; uncertainty; vagueness;
Conference_Titel :
Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW), 2014 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
DOI :
10.1109/NORBERT.2014.6893868
